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Max Meadows, VA

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Overview


Max Meadows is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 553 people and just one neighborhood, Max Meadows is the 324th largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Max Meadows, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 49.32% of Max Meadows’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Max Meadows is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Max Meadows who work in office and administrative support (15.54%), food service (12.84%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (7.21%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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!) Max Meadows 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. Max Meadows has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Max Meadows than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Max Meadows may be for you.

In Max Meadows, 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.

Max Meadows is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Max Meadows isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

As is often the case in a small town, Max Meadows doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In Max Meadows, just 12.05% 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 Max Meadows in 2022 was $32,791, which is middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $131,164 for a family of four. However, Max Meadows contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Max Meadows home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Max Meadows residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Max Meadows include English, Irish, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Max Meadows, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 94.9% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 35 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Max Meadows are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 36.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.4% of U.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, 39.2% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.0%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% 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 Max Meadows, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (3.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.3%), and residents who report English roots (2.8%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.3%), along with some Portuguese 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (42.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (94.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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