Sardis is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,696 people and three associated neighborhoods, Sardis is the 138th largest community in Mississippi.Sardis is a blue-collar town, with 36.04% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Sardis is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sardis who work in office and administrative support (15.63%), business and financial occupations (12.60%), and food service (8.93%). It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Sardis has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Sardis has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sardis than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sardis may be for you. Being a small town, Sardis does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Sardis, just 9.86% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Sardis in 2022 was $20,901, 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 $83,604 for a family of four. Sardis also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.12% of its population below the federal poverty line.Sardis is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sardis home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sardis residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Sardis include English, French, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Sardis is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
