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Prospect, VA

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Overview


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.

Occupations and Workforce

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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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.

Prospect is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The overall education level of Prospect is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Diversity

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.

The Neighbors

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.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

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.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

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.

Getting to Work

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.


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