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Stringer is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 2,999 people and just one neighborhood, Stringer is the 95th largest community in Mississippi.
Occupations and Workforce
Stringer is a blue-collar town, with 45.34% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Stringer is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stringer who work in sales jobs (13.68%), office and administrative support (10.77%), and healthcare suport services (8.02%).
Also of interest is that Stringer has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
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!) Stringer 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. Stringer has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Stringer than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Stringer may be for you.
In Stringer, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.25 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Stringer does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The percentage of adults in Stringer with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.79% of adults in Stringer have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Stringer in 2022 was $19,558, which is lower middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $78,232 for a family of four. However, Stringer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Stringer is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Stringer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stringer residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Stringer include English, Irish, Italian, German, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Stringer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 Stringer, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Occupations
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 45.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.3% of American neighborhoods.
Real Estate
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, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 35 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Length of Commute
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.6% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.0% of all neighborhoods in America.
The Neighbors
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 Stringer are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.6% of America'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, 45.3% 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 20.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.8%), and 15.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.5%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Stringer, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.2%), and residents who report Italian roots (2.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.4%).
Getting to Work
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 (28.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (10.6%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (85.7%) 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 (9.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
