Because of many things, Virgie 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, Virgie really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Virgie 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.
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!) Virgie 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. Virgie has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Virgie than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Virgie may be for you.
One downside of living in Virgie, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.72 minutes every day commuting to work.
Virgie is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Virgie isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Virgie 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 Virgie with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.33% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Virgie in 2022 was $19,798, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $79,192 for a family of four. However, Virgie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Virgie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Virgie residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Virgie include Scottish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.
The most common language spoken in Virgie is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
