Elkton is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,996 people and three associated neighborhoods, Elkton is the 180th largest community in Virginia.Elkton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Elkton is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elkton who work in sales jobs (12.81%), office and administrative support (10.49%), and management occupations (9.03%). The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Elkton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Elkton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, Elkton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Elkton who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.55% of the adults in Elkton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Elkton in 2022 was $35,796, which is middle income relative to Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $143,184 for a family of four. However, Elkton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Elkton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elkton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Elkton include English, German, European, Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Elkton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Urdu.
