Clarksville is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 1,302 people and three associated neighborhoods, Clarksville is the 260th largest community in Virginia.Clarksville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Clarksville is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clarksville who work in management occupations (17.33%), sales jobs (12.31%), and teaching (9.19%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.27% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. 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!) Clarksville 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. Clarksville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Clarksville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Clarksville may be for you. Being a small town, Clarksville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The overall education level of Clarksville is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.99% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Clarksville in 2022 was $37,161, which is middle income relative to Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,644 for a family of four. However, Clarksville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Clarksville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Clarksville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clarksville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Clarksville include English, German, Scandinavian, Scottish, and Irish. The most common language spoken in Clarksville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and Polish.
