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, De Kalb has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes De Kalb a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, De Kalb does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, De Kalb is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.81% of adults 25 and older in De Kalb have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in De Kalb in 2022 was $23,230, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $92,920 for a family of four. However, De Kalb contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
De Kalb is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call De Kalb home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of De Kalb residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in De Kalb include English, Irish, Nigerian, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in De Kalb is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
