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Shaw - Benoit, MS

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Overview


Shaw - Benoit is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 3,464 people and just one neighborhood, Shaw - Benoit is the 83rd largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Shaw - Benoit isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Shaw - Benoit are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Shaw - Benoit is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Shaw - Benoit who work in office and administrative support (14.45%), management occupations (11.02%), and food service (8.76%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Shaw - Benoit with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.32% of adults in Shaw - Benoit have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Shaw - Benoit in 2018 was $20,845, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $83,380 for a family of four. However, Shaw - Benoit contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Shaw - Benoit also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.65% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Of particular note, 15.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 11 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.9% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican 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 Shaw - Benoit are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 45.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.7% 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, 30.1% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.7%), and 17.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.9%).

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 Shaw - Benoit, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (4.0%). There are also a number of people of Jamaican ancestry (3.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.2%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (12.4%) . 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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