Pearisburg is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,832 people and just one neighborhood, Pearisburg is the 182nd largest community in Virginia.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Pearisburg is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.65% of the Pearisburg workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Pearisburg is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pearisburg who work in maintenance occupations (8.73%), healthcare suport services (8.65%), and community and social services (8.25%).
Also of interest is that Pearisburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Pearisburg 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. Pearisburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pearisburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pearisburg may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Pearisburg doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Pearisburg with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.78% of adults in Pearisburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pearisburg in 2022 was $36,052, which is middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,208 for a family of four. However, Pearisburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pearisburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pearisburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pearisburg include English, German, Italian, Irish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Pearisburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Tagalog.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Pearisburg, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Significantly, 2.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.5% 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 Pearisburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 1.0% 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 78.6% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 37.6% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.0%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 95.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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 Pearisburg, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.1%) 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 (12.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.