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, De Kalb has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes De Kalb a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, De Kalb does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in De Kalb who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.81% of the adults in De Kalb have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in De Kalb in 2022 was $23,230, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $92,920 for a family of four. However, De Kalb contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
De Kalb is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call De Kalb home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of De Kalb residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in De Kalb include English, Irish, Nigerian, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in De Kalb is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
