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Potts Camp, MS

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Overview


Potts Camp is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 409 people and just one neighborhood, Potts Camp is the 227th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Potts Camp is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Potts Camp is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Potts Camp who work in food service (16.22%), sales jobs (15.32%), and management occupations (11.71%).

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, Potts Camp has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Potts Camp a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Potts Camp is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Potts Camp, the average commute to work is 35.31 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Potts Camp does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Potts Camp rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.57% of adults 25 and older in Potts Camp have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Potts Camp in 2022 was $20,473, which is lower middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $81,892 for a family of four. Potts Camp also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.65% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Potts Camp is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Pacific Island languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 18 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.2% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Cuban ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Potts Camp are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.1% 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, 39.4% 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 34.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.3%), and 4.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% 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 Potts Camp, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report German roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.5%), along with some Cuban ancestry residents (5.5%), 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 (39.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (11.4%) . 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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