Evington is a somewhat small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 6,075 people and just one neighborhood, Evington is the 108th largest community in Virginia.
Unlike some towns, Evington isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Evington are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Evington is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Evington who work in management occupations (13.94%), office and administrative support (8.61%), and healthcare suport services (8.39%).
Also of interest is that Evington has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Evington has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Evington a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Evington doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Evington is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.64% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Evington in 2022 was $33,465, which is middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $133,860 for a family of four. However, Evington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Evington is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Evington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Evington residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Evington include English, German, Irish, Ethiopian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Evington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Significantly, 3.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.0% 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 Evington are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 57.6% of America'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, 33.6% 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 32.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.0%), and 15.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 89.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Italian.
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 Evington, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (6.4%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.8%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.4%) 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 (12.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.