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Beaumont - New Augusta, MS

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Overview


Beaumont - New Augusta is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 3,296 people and just one neighborhood, Beaumont - New Augusta is the 89th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

14.03% of the workforce is employed in the armed forces, making the military a huge focus of life in Beaumont - New Augusta. Even though it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy. The Manufacturing and Public Service industries respectively employ 20.17% and 15.93% of the civilian workforce.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Being a small town, Beaumont - New Augusta does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

Beaumont - New Augusta ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.02% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Beaumont - New Augusta in 2018 was $24,495, which is upper middle income relative to Mississippi, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,980 for a family of four. However, Beaumont - New Augusta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Beaumont - New Augusta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Spanish.

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 Beaumont - New Augusta, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 99.6% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

Furthermore, the neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 9 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 5.0% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of America's neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Beaumont - New Augusta are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.8% 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, 39.6% 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 34.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (15.9%), and 15.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Beaumont - New Augusta, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (22.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report Asian roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.1%) 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 (17.2%) . 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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