Harrisville is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 2,602 people and just one neighborhood, Harrisville is the 104th largest community in Mississippi.
When you are in Harrisville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.45% of Harrisville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Harrisville is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Harrisville who work in office and administrative support (14.50%), law enforcement and fire fighting (11.51%), and healthcare suport services (11.04%).
Being a small town, Harrisville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Harrisville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.25% of adults in Harrisville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Harrisville in 2022 was $27,997, which is upper middle income relative to Mississippi, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,988 for a family of four. However, Harrisville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Harrisville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Harrisville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Harrisville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Harrisville include Irish, French, German, Dutch, and English.
The most common language spoken in Harrisville is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Korean.
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 Harrisville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (23.2%) than in 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.6% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 23 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.2% of America.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
Significantly, 3.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Harrisville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.9% 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, 34.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.3%), and 16.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.0% of households. Some people also speak French (3.4%).
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 Harrisville, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (5.9%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (4.6%), and residents who report German roots (3.7%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (1.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.6%) 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 (23.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.