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Vardaman, MS

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Overview


Vardaman is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,058 people and just one neighborhood, Vardaman is the 168th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Vardaman is a blue-collar town, with 56.06% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Vardaman is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Vardaman who work in farm management occupations (13.89%), office and administrative support (11.87%), and sales jobs (10.10%).

In addition, many people in Vardaman have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.

Setting & Lifestyle

Vardaman’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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, Vardaman has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Vardaman a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

As is often the case in a small town, Vardaman doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Vardaman have a very low rate of college education: just 7.06% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Vardaman in 2022 was $17,043, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $68,172 for a family of four. However, Vardaman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Vardaman also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.57% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Vardaman is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Vardaman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vardaman residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Vardaman also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 36.35% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Vardaman include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and Yugoslavian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Vardaman's cultural character, accounting for 16.14% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Vardaman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Vardaman, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

People

The neighborhood stands out within Mississippi for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 6.2% of college-friendly places to live in MS.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.7% 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 neighborhood in Vardaman are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.3% 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, 36.6% 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 19.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.6%), and 18.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (18.0%).

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 neighborhood in Vardaman, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (18.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report English roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.0%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.2%), among others. In addition, 12.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (13.7%) . 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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