Blue Springs is a tiny village located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 439 people and just one neighborhood, Blue Springs is the 224th largest community in Mississippi.
Blue Springs real estate is some of the most expensive in Mississippi, although Blue Springs house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in Blue Springs, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 50.35% of Blue Springs’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Blue Springs is a village of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blue Springs who work in sales jobs (14.18%), office and administrative support (10.64%), and healthcare (6.38%).
The village 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, Blue Springs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Blue Springs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small village, Blue Springs doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Blue Springs who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.33% of the adults in Blue Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Blue Springs in 2022 was $32,600, which is wealthy relative to Mississippi, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $130,400 for a family of four. However, Blue Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Blue Springs is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Blue Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blue Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blue Springs include Irish, English, German, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Blue Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Russian and African languages.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.3% of all American neighborhoods.
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 Blue Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.3% 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, 31.9% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.7%), and 14.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.4%).
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 Blue Springs, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.6%), and residents who report Mexican roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.4%), along with some German ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (93.8%) 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 (5.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.