Byhalia is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,370 people and five associated neighborhoods, Byhalia is the 158th largest community in Mississippi.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.95% 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.
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, Byhalia has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Byhalia a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Byhalia 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.
The citizens of Byhalia are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.18% of adults in Byhalia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Byhalia in 2022 was $19,250, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,000 for a family of four. However, Byhalia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Byhalia also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.93% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Byhalia is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Byhalia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Byhalia residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Byhalia also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.64% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Byhalia include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Byhalia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.