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Fries, VA

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Overview


Fries is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 444 people and just one neighborhood, Fries is the 340th largest community in Virginia. Fries has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Fries is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Fries is a town of service providers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fries who work in sales jobs (14.85%), food service (14.85%), and healthcare (14.85%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Fries 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. Fries has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fries than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fries may be for you.

Fries is a very car-oriented town. 98.02% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Fries is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Fries has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Fries is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The education level of Fries citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.88% of adults 25 and older in Fries have a college degree.

The per capita income in Fries in 2022 was $31,202, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,808 for a family of four. However, Fries contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Fries is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (60.4%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Fries neighborhood.

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 Fries are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.7% 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, 39.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.6%), and 9.4% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% 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 Fries, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (20.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (4.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 (42.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (11.2%) . 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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