Calhoun City - Derma is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 2,320 people and just one neighborhood, Calhoun City - Derma is the 109th largest community in Mississippi.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Calhoun City - Derma is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.03% of the Calhoun City - Derma workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Calhoun City - Derma is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Calhoun City - Derma who work in sales jobs (17.14%), office and administrative support (10.85%), and food service (4.88%).
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, Calhoun City - Derma has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Calhoun City - Derma a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Calhoun City - Derma does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Calhoun City - Derma with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.63% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Calhoun City - Derma in 2022 was $24,012, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,048 for a family of four. However, Calhoun City - Derma contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Calhoun City - Derma is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Calhoun City - Derma home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Calhoun City - Derma residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Calhoun City - Derma include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Calhoun City - Derma is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Calhoun City - Derma, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.2% of all American neighborhoods.
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 42.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.8% of 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 Calhoun City - Derma are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.3% 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, 42.4% 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 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.3%), and 14.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.
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 Calhoun City - Derma, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (2.9%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (2.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.7%).
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (93.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.