Fulks Run is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 3,007 people and just one neighborhood, Fulks Run is the 179th largest community in Virginia.
When you are in Fulks Run, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 52.24% of Fulks Run’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Fulks Run is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Fulks Run who work in maintenance occupations (7.96%), management occupations (7.09%), and office and administrative support (5.72%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Fulks Run has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Fulks Run has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fulks Run than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fulks Run may be for you.
One downside of living in Fulks Run, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.92 minutes every day commuting to work.
The percentage of people in Fulks Run with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.67% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fulks Run in 2022 was $27,810, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,240 for a family of four. However, Fulks Run contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Fulks Run home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fulks Run residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Fulks Run include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Fulks Run is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Fulks Run, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 50.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.0% of American neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.7% of America.
Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Fulks Run are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.2% of U.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, 50.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 21.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.0%), and 6.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.
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 Fulks Run, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (11.8%) and 5.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.