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Linville, VA

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Overview


Linville is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 355 people and just one neighborhood, Linville is the 355th largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Linville is a blue-collar town, with 56.56% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Linville is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Linville who work in healthcare (24.59%), maintenance occupations (10.66%), and sales jobs (5.74%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Linville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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, Linville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Linville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One of the benefits of Linville is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.97 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Linville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

Linville ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.35% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Linville in 2022 was $24,590, which is low income relative to Virginia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,360 for a family of four. However, Linville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Linville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Linville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Linville residents report their race to be White. Linville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.13% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Linville include German, Dutch, English, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.

In addition, there is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.7%) living in the neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 5.7% have Ukrainian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Linville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 35.2% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.1%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 96.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Russian and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Linville, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report Swiss roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Ukrainian ancestry (5.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (51.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (11.0%) and 5.3% 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.


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