Parrott is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 358 people and just one neighborhood, Parrott is the 354th largest community in Virginia.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Parrott is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 87.50% of the Parrott workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Parrott is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Parrott who work in personal care services (12.50%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%).
Parrott’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!) Parrott 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. Parrott has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Parrott than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Parrott may be for you.
Parrott is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Parrott is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Parrott has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Being a small town, Parrott does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Parrott have a very low rate of college education: just 8.25% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Parrott in 2022 was $11,210, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $44,840 for a family of four. Parrott also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.06% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Parrott home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Parrott residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Parrott include Scots-Irish, English, Italian, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Parrott is English. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Other Asian languages.
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 Parrott, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (55.0%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Parrott are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.9% 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, 45.0% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.4%), and 7.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.
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 Parrott, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report Mexican roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.4%), along with some Scots-Irish 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 (44.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (16.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.