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Calhoun City - Derma is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 2,320 people and just one neighborhood, Calhoun City - Derma is the 109th largest community in Mississippi.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Calhoun City - Derma is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.88% of the Calhoun City - Derma workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Calhoun City - Derma is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Calhoun City - Derma who work in sales jobs (13.02%), office and administrative support (9.27%), and food service (6.15%).
Also of interest is that Calhoun City - Derma has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Calhoun City - Derma has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Calhoun City - Derma a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Calhoun City - Derma does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The percentage of people in Calhoun City - Derma with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.01% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Calhoun City - Derma in 2022 was $21,227, 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 $84,908 for a family of four. However, Calhoun City - Derma contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Calhoun City - Derma is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Calhoun City - Derma home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Calhoun City - Derma residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Calhoun City - Derma include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Calhoun City - Derma is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 94.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.3% of all American neighborhoods.
Occupations
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 98.0% 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.
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 Calhoun City - Derma are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.3% 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, 46.9% 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 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.4%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.5%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Calhoun City - Derma, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.5%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (2.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.3%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 (36.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (94.4%) 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
