McKenney is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 460 people and two associated neighborhoods, McKenney is the 339th largest community in Virginia.When you are in McKenney, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.97% of McKenney’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, McKenney is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in McKenney who work in sales jobs (12.44%), maintenance occupations (9.33%), and business and financial occupations (6.22%). Also of interest is that McKenney has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, McKenney has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes McKenney a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in McKenney is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In McKenney, the average commute to work is 33.99 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small town, McKenney doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The population of McKenney has a very low overall level of education: only 9.87% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. The per capita income in McKenney in 2022 was $22,306, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,224 for a family of four. However, McKenney contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. McKenney also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.38% of its population below the federal poverty line.McKenney is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McKenney home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McKenney residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in McKenney include Italian, German, Irish, English, and Swiss. The most common language spoken in McKenney is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.
