Hillsville is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,860 people and three associated neighborhoods, Hillsville is the 186th largest community in Virginia.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hillsville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.64% of the Hillsville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hillsville is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hillsville who work in sales jobs (10.55%), healthcare suport services (7.40%), and healthcare (7.32%). 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!) Hillsville 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. Hillsville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hillsville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hillsville may be for you. Hillsville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The citizens of Hillsville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.99% of adults in Hillsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Hillsville in 2022 was $25,426, which is low income relative to Virginia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,704 for a family of four. However, Hillsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Hillsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hillsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Hillsville include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Hillsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
