Carrsville is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 346 people and just one neighborhood, Carrsville is the 357th largest community in Virginia.
Carrsville is a blue-collar town, with 46.88% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Carrsville is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Carrsville who work in healthcare suport services (12.50%), healthcare (12.50%), and personal care services (7.81%).
Of important note, Carrsville is also a town of artists. Carrsville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Carrsville’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Carrsville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.81% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Because of many things, Carrsville is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Carrsville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Carrsville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
One downside of living in Carrsville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.81 minutes every day commuting to work.
Carrsville 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.
In Carrsville, just 11.32% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Carrsville in 2022 was $47,160, which is wealthy relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $188,640 for a family of four. However, Carrsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Carrsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Carrsville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Carrsville include German, English, Irish, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Carrsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
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 Carrsville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.9% of America'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, 31.7% 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 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.9%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.
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 Carrsville, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.7%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (36.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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.