Honaker is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 1,195 people and just one neighborhood, Honaker is the 268th largest community in Virginia.
When you are in Honaker, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.64% of Honaker’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Honaker is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Honaker who work in healthcare (14.99%), sales jobs (13.18%), and office and administrative support (8.27%).
Honaker’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in Honaker is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Honaker, the average commute to work is 34.56 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Honaker 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.
The population of Honaker has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.63% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Honaker in 2022 was $24,707, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $98,828 for a family of four. However, Honaker contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Honaker home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Honaker residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Honaker include English, Scots-Irish, German, Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Honaker is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Honaker are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.5% 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 51.3% of America'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, 46.4% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.0%), and 7.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% 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 Honaker, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report German roots (2.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.9%).
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (81.0%) 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 (12.8%) and 5.4% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.