Pound is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 852 people and two associated neighborhoods, Pound is the 298th largest community in Virginia.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Pound is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.39% of the Pound workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Pound is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Pound who work in office and administrative support (22.95%), food service (11.48%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (6.15%). A relatively large number of people in Pound telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.02% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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. 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!) Pound 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. Pound has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pound than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pound may be for you. Being a small town, Pound does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Pound are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.15% of adults in Pound have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Pound in 2022 was $19,443, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,772 for a family of four. Pound also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.73% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Pound home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pound residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pound include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and British. The most common language spoken in Pound is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
