Montross is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 336 people and two associated neighborhoods, Montross is the 361st largest community in Virginia.
Also of interest is that Montross has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.94% 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.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Montross has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Montross a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of Montross is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.62 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small town, Montross does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Montross 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: 31.10% of adults in Montross have a college degree.
The per capita income in Montross in 2022 was $68,599, which is wealthy relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $274,396 for a family of four. However, Montross contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Montross is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Montross home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montross residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Montross include Scots-Irish, Irish, English, German, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Montross is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.