Sugar Grove is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 610 people and just one neighborhood, Sugar Grove is the 321st largest community in Virginia.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sugar Grove is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 71.09% of the Sugar Grove workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sugar Grove is a town of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sugar Grove who work in healthcare (11.56%), law enforcement and fire fighting (8.84%), and farm management occupations (8.84%).
A relatively large number of people in Sugar Grove telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.22% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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, Sugar Grove has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sugar Grove a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Sugar Grove, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.79 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Sugar Grove 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.
Sugar Grove ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.92% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Sugar Grove in 2022 was $25,499, which is low income relative to Virginia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,996 for a family of four. However, Sugar Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sugar Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sugar Grove residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Sugar Grove include English, Irish, British, Austrian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Sugar Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.
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 Sugar Grove, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 10.4% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
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 95.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 43 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Sugar Grove are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.7% 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, 39.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 20.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.4%), and 17.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Sugar Grove, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report German roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (1.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 (45.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (61.1%) 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 (14.6%) and 7.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.