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Stringer, MS

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Overview


Stringer is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 2,972 people and just one neighborhood, Stringer is the 95th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Stringer is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.43% of the Stringer workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Stringer is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stringer who work in sales jobs (13.39%), office and administrative support (12.86%), and healthcare (5.29%).

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Stringer has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

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 34.93 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Stringer doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Stringer have a very low rate of college education: just 8.92% 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 Stringer in 2022 was $25,332, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,328 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 Irish, English, German, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Stringer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 90.5% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.9% 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 35 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.8% of America.

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 44.9% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.3% of American neighborhoods.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.0% 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.

The Neighbors

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 Stringer are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.1% 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 54.8% of America'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, 44.9% 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 20.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.1%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 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 Stringer, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (8.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report German roots (2.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.5%).

Getting to Work

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 (35.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (90.5%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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