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Ethel, MS

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Overview


Ethel is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 335 people and just one neighborhood, Ethel is the 245th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ethel is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 49.49% of the Ethel workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ethel is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Ethel who work in sales jobs (17.17%), office and administrative support (9.09%), and food service (6.06%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Ethel spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.44 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Ethel is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Ethel, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.81% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

Demographics

The population of Ethel has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.64% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Ethel in 2018 was $18,714, 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 $74,856 for a family of four. However, Ethel contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ethel also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.79% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 95.1% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 43.4%, which is higher than 98.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, 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 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (64.3%) than found in 97.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more African and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.6% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry and 1.9% have Finnish ancestry.

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 Ethel are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 64.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.7% 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, 27.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.9%), and 22.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.2%).

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 Ethel, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (12.6%), along with some Finnish ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (95.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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