Ruckersville is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 1,484 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ruckersville is the 247th largest community in Virginia. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Ruckersville, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Ruckersville, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Ruckersville’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Ruckersville does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $101,875.00.Ruckersville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ruckersville is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ruckersville who work in office and administrative support (14.69%), sales jobs (9.89%), and personal care services (9.04%). Also of interest is that Ruckersville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.63% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. Despite being a small town, Ruckersville has a lot of people using the bus to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the bus are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.The education level of Ruckersville citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 37.83% of adults in Ruckersville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Ruckersville in 2022 was $49,217, which is wealthy relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $196,868 for a family of four. However, Ruckersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ruckersville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ruckersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ruckersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ruckersville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.33% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ruckersville include European, Northern European, English, German, and Russian. The most common language spoken in Ruckersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and West Germanic languages.
