Cana is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 1,243 people and two associated neighborhoods, Cana is the 266th largest community in Virginia.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cana is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.46% of the Cana workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Cana is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cana who work in teaching (13.59%), sales jobs (10.38%), and personal care services (10.38%). It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Cana has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Cana has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cana than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cana may be for you. Being a small town, Cana does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Cana are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.38% of adults in Cana having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Cana in 2022 was $36,062, which is middle income relative to Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $144,248 for a family of four. However, Cana contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Cana home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cana residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Cana include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Cana is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
