Coffeeville is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 776 people and just one neighborhood, Coffeeville is the 190th largest community in Mississippi.
When you are in Coffeeville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 49.22% of Coffeeville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Coffeeville is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Coffeeville who work in personal care services (9.09%), teaching (7.52%), and office and administrative support (6.27%).
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!) Coffeeville 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. Coffeeville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Coffeeville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Coffeeville may be for you.
Being a small town, Coffeeville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Coffeeville have a very low rate of college education: just 6.61% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Coffeeville in 2022 was $19,003, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $76,012 for a family of four. Coffeeville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.91% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Coffeeville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Coffeeville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Coffeeville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Coffeeville include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Coffeeville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Polish.
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 Coffeeville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 17 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.4% of all U.S. 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 Coffeeville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.2% 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, 36.0% 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.0%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% 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 Coffeeville, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report German roots (3.1%).
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (11.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.