McKenney is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 465 people and two associated neighborhoods, McKenney is the 339th largest community in Virginia.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, McKenney is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.37% of the McKenney workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, McKenney is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in McKenney who work in sales jobs (19.77%), business and financial occupations (6.78%), and teaching (6.21%). 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, McKenney has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes McKenney a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in McKenney is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In McKenney, the average commute to work is 35.97 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, McKenney does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In McKenney, just 7.06% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in McKenney in 2022 was $24,382, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,528 for a family of four. However, McKenney contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. McKenney also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.64% of its population below the federal poverty line.McKenney is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McKenney home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McKenney residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in McKenney include Italian, Irish, English, German, and Swiss. The most common language spoken in McKenney is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Asian languages and Polish.
