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Ackerman, MS

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Overview


Ackerman is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,549 people and just one neighborhood, Ackerman is the 145th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Ackerman is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ackerman is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ackerman who work in office and administrative support (25.14%), teaching (10.54%), and maintenance occupations (6.84%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Ackerman is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Ackerman are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.31% of adults in Ackerman have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Ackerman in 2018 was $22,049, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $88,196 for a family of four. However, Ackerman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ackerman is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ackerman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ackerman residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ackerman include English, Irish, German, Welsh, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Ackerman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Langs. of India.

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.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.

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 Ackerman are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.2% 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 neighborhood, 33.9% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.7%), and 15.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.

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 Ackerman, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.2%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.0%), and residents who report African roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.4%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (57.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (77.6%) 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 (9.8%) and 6.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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