Dante is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 572 people and two associated neighborhoods, Dante is the second largest community in Virginia. Much of the housing stock in Dante was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.Dante is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 100.00% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Dante is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dante who work in office and administrative support (91.67%), sales jobs (8.33%), and personal care services (0.00%). 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!) Dante 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. Dante has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dante than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dante may be for you. One downside of living in Dante is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Dante, the average commute to work is 36.25 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Dante is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Dante isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more. Being a small town, Dante does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.Dante ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.00% of people over 25 have a college degree. The per capita income in Dante in 2022 was $14,341, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $57,364 for a family of four. Dante also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 52.70% of its population below the federal poverty line.Dante is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Dante home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dante residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dante include English, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander. The most common language spoken in Dante is English. Other important languages spoken here include Portuguese and Italian.
