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Austinville, VA

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Overview


Austinville is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 119 people and just one neighborhood, Austinville is the 415th largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Austinville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 0.00% of the Austinville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Austinville 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 Austinville who work in office and administrative support (0.00%), sales jobs (0.00%), and personal care services (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Austinville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Austinville is worth considering.

Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 0.00 minutes getting to work every day.

Being a small town, Austinville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

Austinville 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.

Austinville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Austinville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Austinville residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Austinville include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.

The most common language spoken in Austinville is African languages. Other important languages spoken here include Arabic and Hungarian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Austinville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 36.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.8%), and 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Austinville, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report English roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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