Max Meadows is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 553 people and just one neighborhood, Max Meadows is the 324th largest community in Virginia.
Max Meadows is a blue-collar town, with 49.32% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Max Meadows is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Max Meadows who work in office and administrative support (15.54%), food service (12.84%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (7.21%).
Overall, Max Meadows’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, Max Meadows has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Max Meadows a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Max Meadows is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Max Meadows, the average commute to work is 32.91 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Max Meadows is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Max Meadows is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Max Meadows has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
As is often the case in a small town, Max Meadows doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Max Meadows with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.05% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Max Meadows in 2022 was $32,791, which is middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $131,164 for a family of four. However, Max Meadows contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Max Meadows home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Max Meadows residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Max Meadows include English, Irish, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Max Meadows is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 94.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.4% of all American neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 35 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 13.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Virginia. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
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 Max Meadows are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 36.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.4% 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, 39.2% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.0%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.
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 Max Meadows, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (3.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.3%), and residents who report English roots (2.8%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.3%), along with some Portuguese ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (42.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (94.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.