Roxie is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 472 people and just one neighborhood, Roxie is the 216th largest community in Mississippi.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Roxie is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.42% of the Roxie workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Roxie is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Roxie who work in teaching (15.55%), office and administrative support (12.61%), and healthcare (7.98%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Roxie has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Roxie has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Roxie than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Roxie may be for you.
One downside of living in Roxie, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.08 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Roxie does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Roxie has a very low overall level of education: only 9.49% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Roxie in 2022 was $20,331, 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 $81,324 for a family of four. However, Roxie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Roxie also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.11% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Roxie is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Roxie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Roxie residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Roxie include French, Scottish, English, Scots-Irish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Roxie is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 10 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.2% 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.
Furthermore, 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 30.9%, which is higher than 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of all American neighborhoods.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.2% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.7% of all neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.
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 Roxie are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.6% 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, 40.5% 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 32.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.8%), and 5.9% 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 99.9% of households.
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 Roxie, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Scottish (10.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.3%), and residents who report French roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (4.3%), along with some African ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods. However, there is also a significant group of residents (11.2%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (89.8%) 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 (8.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.