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Beaumont - New Augusta, MS

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Overview


Beaumont - New Augusta is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 3,296 people and just one neighborhood, Beaumont - New Augusta is the 89th largest community in Mississippi.

Beaumont - New Augusta real estate is some of the most expensive in Mississippi, although Beaumont - New Augusta house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

The armed forces are a huge part of the life in Beaumont - New Augusta, employing 17.85% of the workforce. While it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy, where the Retail and Other industries employ 15.56% and 14.06% of the civilian workforce, respectively.

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

Being a small town, Beaumont - New Augusta does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Beaumont - New Augusta has a very low overall level of education: only 7.33% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Beaumont - New Augusta in 2022 was $25,189, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,756 for a family of four. However, Beaumont - New Augusta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Beaumont - New Augusta is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Beaumont - New Augusta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beaumont - New Augusta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Beaumont - New Augusta include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Beaumont - New Augusta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Occupations

The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 99.7% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

Furthermore, the neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Beaumont - New Augusta neighborhood.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 23.5% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 96.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Chinese 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 Beaumont - New Augusta are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.6% 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, 35.0% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in the military (17.8%), and 17.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Beaumont - New Augusta, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (22.1%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (6.1%), and residents who report German roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.3%) 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 (23.5%) . 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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