Prospect is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 3,292 people and just one neighborhood, Prospect is the 167th largest community in Virginia.
Unlike some towns, Prospect isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Prospect are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Prospect is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Prospect who work in sales jobs (11.27%), food service (9.56%), and office and administrative support (8.67%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Prospect has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
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!) Prospect 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. Prospect has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Prospect than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Prospect may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Prospect doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Prospect is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 26.64% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Prospect in 2022 was $28,768, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,072 for a family of four. However, Prospect contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Prospect is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Prospect home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Prospect residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Prospect include Italian, Polish, English, Irish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Prospect is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
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 Prospect are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.8% of U.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, 35.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.2%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.
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 Prospect, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (5.8%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report English roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.2%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.3%) 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 (17.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.