Verona is a very small city located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 2,747 people and just one neighborhood, Verona is the 101st largest community in Mississippi.
Verona is a blue-collar town, with 50.43% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Verona is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Verona who work in sales jobs (13.33%), office and administrative support (12.03%), and food service (5.58%).
Being a small city, Verona does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Verona has a very low overall level of education: only 6.88% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Verona in 2022 was $20,791, 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 $83,164 for a family of four. Verona also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.11% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Verona is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Verona home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Verona residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Verona include Scottish, Irish, English, German, and Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Verona is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
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 Verona are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 42.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 49.4% 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 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.5%), and 10.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.0%).
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 Verona, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (4.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (2.8%), and residents who report German roots (2.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.8%), along with some Dominican ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.
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 (50.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.8%) 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 (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.