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Amissville, VA

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Overview


Amissville is a somewhat small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 5,586 people and just one neighborhood, Amissville is the 118th largest community in Virginia.

Amissville home prices are not only among the most expensive in Virginia, but Amissville real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

Amissville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Amissville is a town of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Amissville who work in management occupations (14.34%), teaching (9.95%), and sales jobs (9.64%).

A relatively large number of people in Amissville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.96% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Amissville is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Amissville a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Amissville has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Amissville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

In Amissville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.96 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Demographics

The population of Amissville is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 36.24% of adults in Amissville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Amissville in 2022 was $43,545, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $174,180 for a family of four. However, Amissville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Amissville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Arabic and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Some neighborhoods are made up of apartments. Some consist of row houses, and most - by far - consist of a mixture of housing types. But the neighborhood stands out due to the total dominance of detached, single-family homes here. There are nearly no other types of residential real estate in the neighborhood. In fact, this neighborhood has a higher proportion of single-family homes in its real estate stock than 98.8% of all American neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 8.3% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Virginia. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students and first-time home buyers.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lebanese and Arab ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Lebanese ancestry and 6.4% have Arab ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Amissville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 78.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.1% 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 54.9% 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, 44.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.6%), and 10.0% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.8% of households. Some people also speak Arabic (4.0%).

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 Amissville, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.9%), and some of the residents are also of Arab ancestry (6.4%), along with some Lebanese ancestry residents (6.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (10.1%) . 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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