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Nelsonia - Mappsville, VA

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Overview


Nelsonia - Mappsville is a very small coastal town (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,442 people and just one neighborhood, Nelsonia - Mappsville is the 204th largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Nelsonia - Mappsville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.38% of Nelsonia - Mappsville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Nelsonia - Mappsville is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nelsonia - Mappsville who work in sales jobs (13.48%), farm management occupations (10.87%), and management occupations (8.74%).

Another important characteristic of Nelsonia - Mappsville 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Nelsonia - Mappsville is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Nelsonia - Mappsville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.68% of the adults in Nelsonia - Mappsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Nelsonia - Mappsville in 2022 was $27,014, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,056 for a family of four. However, Nelsonia - Mappsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

In addition, Nelsonia - Mappsville has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (17.43%).

The most common language spoken in Nelsonia - Mappsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Do you like a coastal setting? If so, this neighborhood may be to your liking. The neighborhood is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Often such coastal places have amenities and recreational activities on the waterfront that are attractive to residents and visitors alike. In addition to being coastal, is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.6% 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 Nelsonia - Mappsville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 29.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.1%), and 10.9% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 77.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Nelsonia - Mappsville, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Haitian (7.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.9%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (4.5%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.4%), among others. In addition, 17.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (62.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (65.1%) 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 (21.8%) . 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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