Shipman - Lovingston is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,221 people and just one neighborhood, Shipman - Lovingston is the 210th largest community in Virginia.
Shipman - Lovingston is a blue-collar town, with 44.33% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Shipman - Lovingston is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shipman - Lovingston who work in farm management occupations (16.35%), teaching (14.66%), and food service (8.13%).
Another important characteristic of Shipman - Lovingston is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 18.09% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
In Shipman - Lovingston, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.39 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Shipman - Lovingston does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Shipman - Lovingston with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.02% of adults in Shipman - Lovingston have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Shipman - Lovingston in 2018 was $38,284, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $153,136 for a family of four. However, Shipman - Lovingston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Shipman - Lovingston is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Shipman - Lovingston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shipman - Lovingston residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Shipman - Lovingston also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.34% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Shipman - Lovingston include English, German, Italian, Scots-Irish, and Kenyan.
The most common language spoken in Shipman - Lovingston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Shipman - Lovingston, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (29.6%) than in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 31.9%, which is higher than 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 40 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.8% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 7.5% have Cuban ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.7% 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 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Shipman - Lovingston are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.4% 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 70.0% 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, 33.2% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.8%), and 16.4% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.7%).
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 Shipman - Lovingston, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report Cuban roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (7.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (52.3%) 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 (29.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.