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Pearisburg, VA

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Overview


Pearisburg is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,832 people and just one neighborhood, Pearisburg is the 182nd largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Pearisburg is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pearisburg is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pearisburg who work in office and administrative support (12.10%), maintenance occupations (10.14%), and management occupations (7.93%).

Also of interest is that Pearisburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Pearisburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pearisburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small town, Pearisburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Pearisburg who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.08% of the adults in Pearisburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pearisburg in 2022 was $32,565, which is middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $130,260 for a family of four. However, Pearisburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Pearisburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pearisburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pearisburg include English, European, German, Irish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Pearisburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Tagalog.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Pearisburg, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.

The Neighbors

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 Pearisburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 36.7% 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.1%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Pearisburg, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report English roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.0%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.7%) 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 (12.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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