Boones Mill is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 261 people and just one neighborhood, Boones Mill is the 376th largest community in Virginia.
Boones Mill is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Boones Mill is a town of managers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Boones Mill who work in business and financial occupations (15.27%), personal care services (10.69%), and management occupations (9.92%).
Also of interest is that Boones Mill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Boones Mill is worth considering.
One downside of living in Boones Mill is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Boones Mill, the average commute to work is 31.69 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Boones Mill doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Boones Mill is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.97% of adults in Boones Mill have a college degree.
The per capita income in Boones Mill in 2022 was $40,913, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $163,652 for a family of four. However, Boones Mill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Boones Mill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Boones Mill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Boones Mill include English, Irish, German, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Boones Mill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 0.5% have Belgian ancestry.
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 Boones Mill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.3% of U.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, 44.2% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 10.1% 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 96.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Boones Mill, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (86.5%) 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 (6.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.