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Mooreville, MS

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Overview


Mooreville is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 859 people and just one neighborhood, Mooreville is the 187th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Mooreville is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 99.07% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Mooreville is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mooreville who work in office and administrative support (29.26%), architecture and engineering (24.30%), and teaching (19.81%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Mooreville is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Mooreville a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Mooreville has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Mooreville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Mooreville 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

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Mooreville, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Mooreville is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 57.92% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Mooreville in 2022 was $35,608, which is wealthy relative to Mississippi, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,432 for a family of four. However, Mooreville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Mooreville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mooreville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Mooreville include Scots-Irish, German, English, French, and Scottish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 5.5% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Mississippi. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

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, 11.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish 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 Mooreville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.8% 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, 38.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 36.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.6%), and 7.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.

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 Mooreville, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Scots-Irish (11.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report English roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (59.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.1%) 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 (13.7%) . 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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