Rose Hill - Ewing is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 3,639 people and just one neighborhood, Rose Hill - Ewing is the 153rd largest community in Virginia.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rose Hill - Ewing is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.13% of the Rose Hill - Ewing workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rose Hill - Ewing is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Rose Hill - Ewing who work in sales jobs (10.95%), healthcare suport services (10.88%), and management occupations (9.23%).
Of important note, Rose Hill - Ewing is also a town of artists. Rose Hill - Ewing has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Rose Hill - Ewing’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.05% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Rose Hill - Ewing’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!) Rose Hill - Ewing 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. Rose Hill - Ewing has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rose Hill - Ewing than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rose Hill - Ewing may be for you.
Being a small town, Rose Hill - Ewing does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Rose Hill - Ewing is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.66% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rose Hill - Ewing in 2022 was $30,932, which is middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $123,728 for a family of four. However, Rose Hill - Ewing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rose Hill - Ewing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rose Hill - Ewing residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rose Hill - Ewing include English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Rose Hill - Ewing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 90.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 27.0% have English ancestry.
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 Rose Hill - Ewing are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.7% 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, 38.1% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.2%), and 17.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.5%).
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 Rose Hill - Ewing, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (27.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Welsh roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.2%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (9.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.