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Partlow, VA

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Overview


Partlow is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 4,370 people and just one neighborhood, Partlow is the 144th largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Partlow is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Partlow is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Partlow who work in management occupations (17.49%), sales jobs (12.22%), and office and administrative support (8.92%).

Also of interest is that Partlow has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

In Partlow, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.11 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Demographics

The citizens of Partlow are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.48% of adults in Partlow have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Partlow in 2022 was $44,350, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $177,400 for a family of four. However, Partlow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Significantly, 2.3% 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 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Partlow are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 33.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.3%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 93.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Partlow, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report German roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (3.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (9.2%) . 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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