Afton is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 313 people and two associated neighborhoods, Afton is the 365th largest community in Virginia. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Afton, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Afton, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Afton’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Afton does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $93,409.00.Afton is a blue-collar town, with 35.03% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Afton is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Afton who work in maintenance occupations (31.21%), management occupations (14.01%), and business and financial occupations (7.64%). A relatively large number of people in Afton telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.64% 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. Overall, Afton’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Afton has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Afton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Afton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Afton may be for you. One downside of living in Afton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 40.40 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small town, Afton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Afton 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: 31.01% of adults in Afton have a college degree. The per capita income in Afton in 2022 was $55,659, which is wealthy relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $222,636 for a family of four. However, Afton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Afton is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Afton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Afton residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Afton include English, French, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian. The most common language spoken in Afton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
