Hickory Flat is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 481 people and just one neighborhood, Hickory Flat is the 211th largest community in Mississippi.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hickory Flat is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 55.23% of the Hickory Flat workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hickory Flat is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hickory Flat who work in teaching (12.13%), sales jobs (8.37%), and healthcare (5.86%).
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, Hickory Flat has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hickory Flat a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Hickory Flat, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.19 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Hickory Flat does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Hickory Flat is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.64% of adults 25 and older in Hickory Flat have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hickory Flat in 2022 was $18,972, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,888 for a family of four. However, Hickory Flat contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hickory Flat also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.60% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Hickory Flat home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hickory Flat residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hickory Flat include English, German, Swedish, Irish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Hickory Flat is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Armenian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Furthermore, each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.3% 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 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.5% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 28.8% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hickory Flat are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.4% 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, 51.9% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.0%), and 6.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 Hickory Flat, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (28.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report German roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (27.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.3%) 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 (10.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.