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Walthall, MS

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Overview


Walthall is a tiny village located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 114 people and just one neighborhood, Walthall is the 275th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Walthall isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Walthall are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Walthall is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Walthall who work in teaching (23.64%), sales jobs (14.55%), and healthcare (12.73%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Walthall is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The village’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Walthall’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

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

Being a small village, Walthall does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Walthall is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.00% of adults in Walthall have a college degree.

The per capita income in Walthall in 2022 was $38,950, which is wealthy relative to Mississippi, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $155,800 for a family of four. However, Walthall contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Walthall home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Walthall residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Walthall include Irish, Scottish, English, Dutch, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Walthall is English. Other important languages spoken here include Japanese 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 Walthall, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

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 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.3% of America.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 29.4% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

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 Walthall are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.4% 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, 45.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 20.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.9%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.

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 Walthall, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (29.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (3.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (89.0%) 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.


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