Duffield is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 70 people and just one neighborhood, Duffield is the 419th largest community in Virginia.
Duffield is a blue-collar town, with 45.83% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Duffield is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Duffield who work in healthcare (12.50%), office and administrative support (8.33%), and sales jobs (8.33%).
A relatively large number of people in Duffield telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.33% 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, Duffield has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Duffield a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Duffield 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.
Duffield ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.26% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Duffield in 2022 was $29,712, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,848 for a family of four. However, Duffield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Duffield is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Duffield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Duffield residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Duffield include Irish, English, German, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Duffield is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Of particular note, 14.7% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
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 35 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.8% of America.
Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Persian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Duffield are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.1% 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, 33.2% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.8%), and 7.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.
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 Duffield, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (8.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.2%), and residents who report German roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 (38.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (75.7%) 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 (20.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.