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Riner, VA

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Overview


Riner is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 949 people and just one neighborhood, Riner is the 292nd largest community in Virginia. Much of the housing stock in Riner was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Riner economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Riner, where the median household income is $87,230.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Riner is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.80% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Riner is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Riner who work in office and administrative support (27.84%), art, media, and design (20.21%), and community and social services (15.05%).

Of important note, Riner is also a town of artists. Riner has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Riner’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Riner is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Riner a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Riner has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Riner’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

As is often the case in a small town, Riner doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Riner is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 36.79% of adults in Riner have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Riner in 2022 was $37,471, 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 $149,884 for a family of four. However, Riner contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Riner home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Riner residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Riner include Irish, English, Scots-Irish, German, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Riner is English. Other important languages spoken here include Russian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 97.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.

In addition, if you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 11.6% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Virginia. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

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, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Persian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Riner are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.5% 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, 35.1% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.0%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% 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 Riner, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report English roots (14.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (5.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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