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 has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Fieldale is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 95.00% 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 (29.00%), healthcare (27.00%), and office and administrative support (19.50%).
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, Fieldale has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fieldale a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Fieldale does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Fieldale ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 2.60% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Fieldale in 2022 was $18,878, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,512 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 33.42% 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 German, English, Irish, Portuguese, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Fieldale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
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.
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (77.1%) than found in 99.2% 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 91.3% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 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 91.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 77.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 99.2% 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, 35.6% 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.9%), and 17.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Fieldale, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (7.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (2.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.2%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (1.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (63.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (91.3%) 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 (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.