Fieldale is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 852 people and just one neighborhood, Fieldale is the 302nd largest community in Virginia.
Fieldale is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 94.21% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Fieldale is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fieldale who work in management occupations (34.74%), healthcare (27.89%), and office and administrative support (17.89%).
A relatively large number of people in Fieldale telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.21% 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.
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!) Fieldale 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. Fieldale has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fieldale than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fieldale may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Fieldale doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Fieldale has a very low overall level of education: only 7.20% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Fieldale in 2022 was $19,923, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,692 for a family of four. However, Fieldale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fieldale also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.14% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Fieldale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fieldale residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Fieldale include English, Irish, Portuguese, German, and French.
The most common language spoken in Fieldale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
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 Fieldale, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (80.3%) than found in 99.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Our research reveals that 88.6% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 1.7% have Danish ancestry.
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 Fieldale are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 80.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 99.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 37.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 17.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% 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 Fieldale, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.3%). There are also a number of people of Welsh ancestry (2.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (1.8%), and some of the residents are also of Danish ancestry (1.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (68.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (5.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.