Grottoes is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,953 people and just one neighborhood, Grottoes is the 184th largest community in Virginia.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Grottoes is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Grottoes is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grottoes who work in management occupations (12.59%), sales jobs (11.90%), and office and administrative support (11.28%).
Being a small town, Grottoes does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Grottoes are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.07% of adults in Grottoes having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Grottoes in 2022 was $41,563, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $166,252 for a family of four. However, Grottoes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Grottoes is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Grottoes home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grottoes residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Grottoes include German, English, Irish, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Grottoes is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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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 Grottoes are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.3% 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 50.0% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 31.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.4%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Grottoes, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (5.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (5.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.