Plantersville is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 849 people and just one neighborhood, Plantersville is the 184th largest community in Mississippi.
Unlike some towns, Plantersville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Plantersville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Plantersville is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Plantersville who work in office and administrative support (13.04%), sales jobs (10.23%), and healthcare (9.97%).
Plantersville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Plantersville is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.18% of adults 25 and older in Plantersville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Plantersville in 2022 was $22,460, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $89,840 for a family of four. However, Plantersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Plantersville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.87% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Plantersville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Plantersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Plantersville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Plantersville include Irish, German, English, Dutch, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Plantersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages 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 92.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.6% of all American neighborhoods.
Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Plantersville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.3% 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, 37.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer 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 (18.7%), and 18.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).
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 Plantersville, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.7%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 (54.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (92.6%) 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 (5.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.