Friars Point - Jonestown is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 2,649 people and just one neighborhood, Friars Point - Jonestown is the 97th largest community in Mississippi.
Unlike some towns, Friars Point - Jonestown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Friars Point - Jonestown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Friars Point - Jonestown is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Friars Point - Jonestown who work in management occupations (10.04%), maintenance occupations (9.24%), and sales jobs (9.05%).
The overall crime rate in Friars Point - Jonestown is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Being a small town, Friars Point - Jonestown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Friars Point - Jonestown with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.11% of adults in Friars Point - Jonestown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Friars Point - Jonestown in 2022 was $21,047, 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 $84,188 for a family of four. Friars Point - Jonestown also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 47.01% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Friars Point - Jonestown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Friars Point - Jonestown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Friars Point - Jonestown residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Friars Point - Jonestown include English, Irish, Lebanese, German, and African.
The most common language spoken in Friars Point - Jonestown is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
One of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America. The neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (60.9%) than found in 97.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (57.1%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
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 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.5% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.4% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Friars Point - Jonestown are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 98.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 60.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 42.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 22.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.9%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 Friars Point - Jonestown, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (7.4%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report English roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.1%), along with some Jamaican ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.8%) 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 (6.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.