Weir is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 440 people and just one neighborhood, Weir is the 220th largest community in Mississippi.
Weir is a blue-collar town, with 52.70% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Weir is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Weir who work in teaching (11.62%), healthcare suport services (10.79%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.30%).
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, Weir has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Weir a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Weir is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Weir, the average commute to work is 33.76 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Weir does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Weir rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.22% of adults 25 and older in Weir 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 Weir in 2022 was $17,661, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,644 for a family of four. Weir also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.94% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Weir is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Weir home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Weir residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Weir include English, African, Jamaican, German, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Weir is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Weir, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 19 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.0% of America.
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 Weir are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.1% 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, 38.4% 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.2%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Weir, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.3%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.
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 (29.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.3%) 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 (20.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.