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Tishomingo is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 363 people and just one neighborhood, Tishomingo is the 243rd largest community in Mississippi.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tishomingo is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.39% of the Tishomingo workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tishomingo is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Tishomingo who work in office and administrative support (13.64%), healthcare (11.62%), and sales jobs (10.10%).
Also of interest is that Tishomingo has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
Tishomingo’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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, Tishomingo has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Tishomingo a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Tishomingo, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.54 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Tishomingo doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The rate of college-level education in Tishomingo is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.18% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Tishomingo in 2022 was $27,265, 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 $109,060 for a family of four. However, Tishomingo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Tishomingo is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tishomingo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tishomingo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tishomingo include Irish, English, Scots-Irish, German, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Tishomingo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Tagalog.
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 Tishomingo, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Modes of Transportation
Our research reveals that 94.3% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 47.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.4% of American neighborhoods.
People
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
Real Estate
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.0% of the 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 Tishomingo are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.9% 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, 47.8% 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 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.0%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households.
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 Tishomingo, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (7.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report Mexican roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (94.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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.
