Jayess is a somewhat small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 6,968 people and two associated neighborhoods, Jayess is the 53rd largest community in Mississippi.Jayess is a blue-collar town, with 38.33% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Jayess is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jayess who work in teaching (16.86%), sales jobs (9.26%), and office and administrative support (7.20%). It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Jayess has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Jayess has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Jayess than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Jayess may be for you. In Jayess, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.67 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. In terms of college education, the citizens of Jayess rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.91% of adults 25 and older in Jayess 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 Jayess in 2022 was $23,472, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,888 for a family of four. However, Jayess contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Jayess is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Jayess home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jayess residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jayess include Irish, English, French, German, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Jayess is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
