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Charlotte Court House, VA

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Overview


Charlotte Court House is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 504 people and just one neighborhood, Charlotte Court House is the 332nd largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Charlotte Court House is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.73% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Charlotte Court House is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Charlotte Court House who work in management occupations (18.83%), sales jobs (16.05%), and art, media, and design (10.49%).

Of important note, Charlotte Court House is also a town of artists. Charlotte Court House has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Charlotte Court House’s character.

A relatively large number of people in Charlotte Court House telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.46% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Charlotte Court House is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Charlotte Court House really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Charlotte Court House perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Demographics

The education level of Charlotte Court House citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.28% of adults in Charlotte Court House have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Charlotte Court House in 2022 was $26,143, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $104,572 for a family of four. However, Charlotte Court House contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Charlotte Court House is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Charlotte Court House home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Charlotte Court House residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Charlotte Court House include German, English, French, Irish, and European.

The most common language spoken in Charlotte Court House is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Korean.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

If you are planning to retire in Virginia, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Virginia, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 97.6% of neighborhoods in VA. If a Virginia retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Charlotte Court House are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 32.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.7%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Charlotte Court House, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report German roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (1.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 (30.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.1%) 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 (10.3%) . 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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