Boyle is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 497 people and just one neighborhood, Boyle is the 207th largest community in Mississippi.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Boyle is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.12% of the Boyle workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Boyle is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Boyle who work in teaching (13.60%), sales jobs (12.50%), and healthcare (9.19%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Boyle is worth considering.
Boyle 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.
The citizens of Boyle are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 37.47% of adults in Boyle have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Boyle in 2022 was $21,770, 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 $87,080 for a family of four. However, Boyle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Boyle is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Boyle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Boyle residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Boyle include Slovene, German, English, Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Boyle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
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.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Boyle is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in MS, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.8% of the neighborhoods in Mississippi. If you are considering retiring to Mississippi, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 Boyle are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.7% 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, 32.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.4%), and 20.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.8%).
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 Boyle, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (7.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.0%), and residents who report German roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.7%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.
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 (51.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (11.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.