Cana is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 1,243 people and two associated neighborhoods, Cana is the 266th largest community in Virginia.When you are in Cana, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.46% of Cana’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cana is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cana who work in teaching (13.59%), sales jobs (10.38%), and personal care services (10.38%). 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, Cana has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cana a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, Cana does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Cana citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.38% of adults in Cana have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Cana in 2022 was $36,062, which is middle income relative to Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $144,248 for a family of four. However, Cana contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Cana home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cana residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Cana include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Cana is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
