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. 45.11% 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 sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cana who work in teaching (16.40%), sales jobs (9.94%), and business and financial occupations (5.21%). 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!) Cana 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. Cana has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cana than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cana may be for you. Cana 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.The percentage of people in Cana who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.90% of adults in Cana have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Cana in 2022 was $39,397, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $157,588 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, German, Italian, and French. The most common language spoken in Cana is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
