Yazoo City is a somewhat small city located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 9,754 people and four associated neighborhoods, Yazoo City is the 41st largest community in Mississippi.Yazoo City is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Yazoo City is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Yazoo City who work in office and administrative support (12.24%), sales jobs (10.87%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (10.47%). Being a small city, Yazoo City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Yazoo City is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.10% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Yazoo City in 2022 was $17,443, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $69,772 for a family of four. However, Yazoo City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Yazoo City also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 44.95% of its population below the federal poverty line.Yazoo City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Yazoo City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Yazoo City residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Yazoo City include Irish, English, German, European, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Yazoo City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
