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Vaiden, MS

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Overview


Vaiden is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 886 people and just one neighborhood, Vaiden is the 179th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Vaiden is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.54% of the Vaiden workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Vaiden is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Vaiden who work in management occupations (14.62%), sales jobs (13.08%), and healthcare suport services (9.23%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.36% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Vaiden 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. Vaiden has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Vaiden than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Vaiden may be for you.

In Vaiden, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.35 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Vaiden 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.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Vaiden with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.74% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Vaiden in 2018 was $11,339, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $45,356 for a family of four. Vaiden also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.06% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Vaiden, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Of particular note, 9.2% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Real Estate

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 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 7.9% have African 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 Vaiden are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.6% 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, 39.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.9%), and 10.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Vaiden, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (7.9%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.7%), along with some English ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.2%) 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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