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Meadowview - Emory, VA

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Overview


Meadowview - Emory is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,624 people and just one neighborhood, Meadowview - Emory is the 196th largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Meadowview - Emory is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Meadowview - Emory is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Meadowview - Emory who work in office and administrative support (21.43%), teaching (16.76%), and sales jobs (8.14%).

A relatively large number of people in Meadowview - Emory telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.12% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The education level of Meadowview - Emory citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.47% of adults in Meadowview - Emory have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Meadowview - Emory in 2022 was $25,903, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $103,612 for a family of four. However, Meadowview - Emory contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Meadowview - Emory is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Meadowview - Emory home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Meadowview - Emory residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Meadowview - Emory include English, German, Irish, European, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Meadowview - Emory is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

An extraordinary 30.7% of the residents of the neighborhood are currently enrolled in college. This is such a large part of life in this neighborhood that the neighborhood changes a great deal with the change of semesters and is far quieter during the summer when many students are away.

In addition, according to NeighborhoodScout's research, is better suited for first-time home buyers than 87.2% of neighborhoods in the state. Most homes here are priced below the state's median house value, yet maintain comparably good appreciation rates over the last decade relative to other neighborhoods in Virginia. Along with an exclusive multi-metric measure of neighborhood quality developed by NeighborhoodScout that scores high here in this neighborhood, this means that buying into the neighborhood is not only an accessible option but considered a decent first time home buyer choice for building equity in your first home, while being in a quality neighborhood

Modes of Transportation

More people in choose to walk to work each day (22.0%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.

The Neighbors

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 Meadowview - Emory are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.1% 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 53.0% of America's neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 35.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.6%), and 15.2% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Meadowview - Emory, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (60.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (22.0%) and 5.8% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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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