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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Carriere / Ozona median real estate price is $212,038, which is more expensive than 59.4% of the neighborhoods in Mississippi and 23.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.

The average rental price in Carriere / Ozona is currently $1,672, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 69.9% of the neighborhoods in Mississippi.

Carriere / Ozona is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Picayune, Mississippi.

Carriere / Ozona real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Carriere / Ozona neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.

Carriere / Ozona has a 13.5% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 74.1% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the Carriere / Ozona neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 50.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.9% of American neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Carriere / Ozona (28.0%) than in 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the Carriere / Ozona neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 39.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the Carriere / Ozona neighborhood has more French and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.1% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 4.2% have Dutch ancestry.

Carriere / Ozona is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Carriere / Ozona neighborhood in Picayune are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the Carriere / Ozona neighborhood, 50.0% 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 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.4%), and 3.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Carriere / Ozona neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (10.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the Carriere / Ozona neighborhood in Picayune, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.6%), and residents who report French roots (15.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (14.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (13.4%), 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 Carriere / Ozona neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (71.2%) 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 (28.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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