Mize is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 312 people and just one neighborhood, Mize is the 247th largest community in Mississippi.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mize is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.75% of the Mize workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mize is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mize who work in healthcare (19.42%), office and administrative support (9.71%), and business and financial occupations (8.74%).
Of important note, Mize is also a town of artists. Mize has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Mize’s character.
The overall crime rate in Mize is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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, Mize has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mize a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Mize 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.
The rate of college-level education in Mize is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.28% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mize in 2022 was $26,850, which is upper middle income relative to Mississippi, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $107,400 for a family of four. However, Mize contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mize home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mize residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mize include Irish, English, German, Other Subsaharan African, and British.
The most common language spoken in Mize is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Mize, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 34 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Mize are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 28.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.4% 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, 36.3% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.4%), and 11.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households.
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 Mize, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (6.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.1%), and residents who report German roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.3%), along with some British ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.
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 (51.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.3%) 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 (6.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.