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Utica, MS

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Overview


Utica is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 615 people and just one neighborhood, Utica is the 200th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Utica is a blue-collar town, with 38.56% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Utica is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Utica who work in office and administrative support (16.53%), sales jobs (9.75%), and healthcare (8.05%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Utica has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Utica a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Utica, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.01 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Utica rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.20% of adults 25 and older in Utica have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Utica in 2022 was $20,606, 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 $82,424 for a family of four. However, Utica contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Utica also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.50% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Utica is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Utica home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Utica residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Utica include English, Scottish, Nigerian, French, and Scots-Irish.

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

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 Utica, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.3% of all American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 26 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Utica are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.7% 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, 32.7% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.8%), and 19.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% 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 Utica, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (4.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (3.2%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (2.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (91.5%) 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 (6.7%) . 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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