Linville is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 355 people and just one neighborhood, Linville is the 355th largest community in Virginia. Linville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Linville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 66.01% of the Linville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Linville is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Linville who work in healthcare (18.95%), sales jobs (7.19%), and maintenance occupations (5.88%).
Overall, Linville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Linville 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. Linville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Linville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Linville may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Linville spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 14.36 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Linville is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Linville, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.39% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Linville 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.
In terms of college education, Linville ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Linville in 2022 was $32,093, 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 $128,372 for a family of four. However, Linville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Linville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Linville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Linville residents report their race to be White. Linville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 41.13% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Linville include German, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.
The most common language spoken in Linville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
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.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.7%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 3.2% have Ukrainian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Linville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.4% 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 73.5% 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, 37.8% 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 36.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.9%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Russian and Spanish.
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 Linville, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Swiss roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.9%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 (49.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (9.9%) and 5.1% 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.