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Weir, MS

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Overview


Weir is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 434 people and just one neighborhood, Weir is the 220th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Weir is a blue-collar town, with 53.09% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Weir is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Weir who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (16.05%), teaching (9.88%), and healthcare suport services (7.82%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Weir has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Weir a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Weir, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.32 minutes every day commuting to work.

Weir 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 rate of college-level education in Weir is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.27% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Weir in 2018 was $15,659, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,636 for a family of four. Weir also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.75% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

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 Weir, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 19 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.0% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish 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 Weir are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.7% 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, 38.1% 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 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.

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 Weir, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.2%), and residents who report German roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (18.5%) . 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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