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Ecru, MS

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Overview


Ecru is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 919 people and just one neighborhood, Ecru is the 180th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ecru is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 57.67% of the Ecru workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ecru is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ecru who work in teaching (6.98%), sales jobs (6.20%), and office and administrative support (6.05%).

Also of interest is that Ecru has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

In Ecru, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.58 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Ecru is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.51% of adults 25 and older in Ecru have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ecru in 2018 was $26,532, 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 $106,128 for a family of four. However, Ecru contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ecru is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ecru home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ecru residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ecru also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.03% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ecru include English, Irish, German, Swedish, and Nigerian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.3% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.8%) living in the neighborhood.

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 Ecru are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 34.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.8%), and 15.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.3%).

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 Ecru, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report German roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (37.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (80.9%) 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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