Fulks Run is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 3,007 people and just one neighborhood, Fulks Run is the 179th largest community in Virginia.
Fulks Run is a blue-collar town, with 52.24% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Fulks Run is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Fulks Run who work in maintenance occupations (7.96%), management occupations (7.09%), and office and administrative support (5.72%).
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!) Fulks Run 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. Fulks Run has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fulks Run than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fulks Run may be for you.
One downside of living in Fulks Run is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fulks Run, the average commute to work is 33.92 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
In Fulks Run, just 11.67% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Fulks Run in 2022 was $27,810, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,240 for a family of four. However, Fulks Run contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Fulks Run home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fulks Run residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Fulks Run include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Fulks Run is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Fulks Run, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.7% of America.
Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Fulks Run are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.2% 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, 50.6% 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 21.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.0%), and 6.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.
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 Fulks Run, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (11.8%) and 5.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.