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New Canton, VA

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Overview


New Canton is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,954 people and just one neighborhood, New Canton is the 181st largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in New Canton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 47.44% of New Canton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, New Canton is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in New Canton who work in sales jobs (12.86%), office and administrative support (9.87%), and management occupations (7.03%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, New Canton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Canton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in New Canton is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In New Canton, the average commute to work is 44.59 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

In New Canton, just 7.36% 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 New Canton in 2022 was $28,645, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,580 for a family of four. However, New Canton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

New Canton is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call New Canton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Canton residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in New Canton include English, Italian, Irish, German, and Kenyan.

The most common language spoken in New Canton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 47.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.3% of American neighborhoods.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.2% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.7% of all neighborhoods in America.

People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 7.4% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.2% of America's neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 34 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in New Canton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.2% 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, 47.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 20.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.8%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in New Canton, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.7%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.0%), along with some German ancestry residents (4.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (48.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (7.4%) . 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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