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.
Fulks Run is a blue-collar town, with 52.24% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. 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%).
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, Fulks Run has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fulks Run a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Fulks Run, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.92 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
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.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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.
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 95.7% of the neighborhoods in 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.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
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.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
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.
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 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.