McKenney is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 457 people and two associated neighborhoods, McKenney is the 339th largest community in Virginia.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, McKenney is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.97% of the McKenney workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, McKenney is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in McKenney who work in sales jobs (12.44%), maintenance occupations (9.33%), and business and financial occupations (6.22%). Also of interest is that McKenney has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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!) McKenney 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. McKenney has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in McKenney than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, McKenney may be for you. In McKenney, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.99 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small town, McKenney does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The population of McKenney has a very low overall level of education: only 9.87% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. The per capita income in McKenney in 2022 was $22,306, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,224 for a family of four. However, McKenney contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. McKenney also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.38% of its population below the federal poverty line.McKenney is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McKenney home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McKenney residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in McKenney include Italian, German, Irish, English, and Swiss. The most common language spoken in McKenney is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.
