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Ivanhoe, VA

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Overview


Ivanhoe is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 501 people and just one neighborhood, Ivanhoe is the 333rd largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Ivanhoe, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.04% of Ivanhoe’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Ivanhoe is a town of service providers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ivanhoe who work in personal care services (32.27%), farm management occupations (20.32%), and food service (9.96%).

Another important characteristic of Ivanhoe is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

A relatively large number of people in Ivanhoe telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 32.27% 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

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ivanhoe has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ivanhoe a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

In Ivanhoe, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.91 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Ivanhoe is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Ivanhoe ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.99% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ivanhoe in 2022 was $12,331, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $49,324 for a family of four. Ivanhoe also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 48.52% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Ivanhoe is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ivanhoe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ivanhoe residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Ivanhoe include Irish, German, African, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Ivanhoe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ivanhoe 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. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 36.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% 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 Ivanhoe, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (4.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.2%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 (43.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (17.8%) . 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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