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New Canton, VA

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Overview


New Canton is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,954 people and just one neighborhood, New Canton is the 181st largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in New Canton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.35% of New Canton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, New Canton is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in New Canton who work in office and administrative support (11.23%), maintenance occupations (7.75%), and healthcare suport services (7.32%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, New Canton is worth considering.

One downside of living in New Canton is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In New Canton, the average commute to work is 40.56 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The citizens of New Canton have a very low rate of college education: just 9.53% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in New Canton in 2018 was $24,698, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $98,792 for a family of four. However, New Canton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

New Canton is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call New Canton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Canton residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in New Canton include English, Italian, Irish, German, and French.

The most common language spoken in New Canton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.3% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in New Canton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 2.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 73.5% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 43.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 19.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.6%), and 18.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in New Canton, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.9%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (6.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (41.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (84.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (11.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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