Atkins is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 1,121 people and two associated neighborhoods, Atkins is the 276th largest community in Virginia.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Atkins is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 61.22% of the Atkins workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Atkins is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Atkins who work in healthcare (10.69%), art, media, and design (6.71%), and business and financial occupations (6.50%). Of important note, Atkins is also a town of artists. Atkins has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Atkins’s character. 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!) Atkins 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. Atkins has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Atkins than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Atkins may be for you. Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Atkins spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.05 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be. Being a small town, Atkins does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Atkins are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.10% of adults in Atkins have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Atkins in 2022 was $29,529, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $118,116 for a family of four. However, Atkins contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Atkins is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Atkins home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Atkins residents report their race to be White. Atkins also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.48% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Atkins include English, German, Scottish, Irish, and Canadian. The most common language spoken in Atkins is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
