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Stony Creek, VA

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Overview


Stony Creek is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 202 people and just one neighborhood, Stony Creek is the 392nd largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Stony Creek is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Stony Creek is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Stony Creek who work in healthcare (19.53%), sales jobs (15.63%), and management occupations (10.94%).

Of important note, Stony Creek is also a town of artists. Stony Creek has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Stony Creek’s character.

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Stony Creek has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Also of interest is that Stony Creek 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: 11.72% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Stony Creek is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Stony Creek, the average commute to work is 30.86 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Stony Creek 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.

Demographics

The education level of Stony Creek citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.11% of adults in Stony Creek have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Stony Creek in 2022 was $33,371, which is middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $133,484 for a family of four. However, Stony Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Stony Creek also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.56% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Stony Creek is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Stony Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stony Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Stony Creek include English, African, German, Polish, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Stony Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Stony Creek, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 93.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.6% of America.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.6% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Stony Creek are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 34.6% 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 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Stony Creek, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.8%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report African roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.1%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (93.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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