Brookneal is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 1,078 people and just one neighborhood, Brookneal is the 279th largest community in Virginia.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Brookneal is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.22% of the Brookneal workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Brookneal is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brookneal who work in office and administrative support (12.87%), healthcare suport services (11.49%), and food service (8.51%).
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!) Brookneal 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. Brookneal has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Brookneal than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Brookneal may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Brookneal doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Brookneal has a very low overall level of education: only 9.88% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Brookneal in 2022 was $23,177, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,708 for a family of four. However, Brookneal contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Brookneal is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Brookneal home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brookneal residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Brookneal include Scottish, English, Irish, African, and German.
The most common language spoken in Brookneal is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
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 Brookneal, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 37 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.5% of America.
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 Brookneal are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 37.9% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.8%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.
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 Brookneal, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.3%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (4.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (28.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.8%) 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 (9.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.