Tishomingo is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 365 people and just one neighborhood, Tishomingo is the 243rd largest community in Mississippi.
Tishomingo is a blue-collar town, with 38.74% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Tishomingo is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tishomingo who work in office and administrative support (15.32%), healthcare (9.01%), and teaching (8.11%).
Also of interest is that Tishomingo has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Tishomingo’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Tishomingo 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. Tishomingo has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tishomingo than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tishomingo may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Tishomingo doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Tishomingo are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.58% of adults in Tishomingo have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Tishomingo in 2022 was $27,157, 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 $108,628 for a family of four. However, Tishomingo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Tishomingo is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tishomingo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tishomingo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tishomingo include Irish, English, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Tishomingo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Tagalog.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 97.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.8% of all American neighborhoods.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (54.1%) than found in 95.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 29 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.0% 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 Tishomingo are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 54.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 48.6% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.9%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.
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 Tishomingo, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.5%), and residents who report Mexican roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.5%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 (34.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (97.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.