Rich Creek - Narrows is a somewhat small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 5,387 people and just one neighborhood, Rich Creek - Narrows is the 117th largest community in Virginia.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Rich Creek - Narrows is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rich Creek - Narrows is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rich Creek - Narrows who work in office and administrative support (14.58%), law enforcement and fire fighting (6.49%), and maintenance occupations (6.32%).
One downside of living in Rich Creek - Narrows is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Rich Creek - Narrows, the average commute to work is 31.03 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Rich Creek - Narrows doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Rich Creek - Narrows are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.35% of adults in Rich Creek - Narrows have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Rich Creek - Narrows in 2022 was $33,437, which is middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $133,748 for a family of four. However, Rich Creek - Narrows contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rich Creek - Narrows home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rich Creek - Narrows residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rich Creek - Narrows include English, Irish, German, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Rich Creek - Narrows is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.
Our research reveals that 89.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.6% 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 Rich Creek - Narrows are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.6% 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, 30.7% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 18.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.0%).
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 Rich Creek - Narrows, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.0%), and residents who report German roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (26.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (89.4%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.