Toomsuba is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 778 people and just one neighborhood, Toomsuba is the 191st largest community in Mississippi.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Toomsuba is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.20% of the Toomsuba workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Toomsuba is a town of managers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Toomsuba who work in management occupations (46.95%), office and administrative support (11.59%), and computer science and math (4.27%).
Also of interest is that Toomsuba has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Being a small town, Toomsuba does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Toomsuba citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 38.85% of adults in Toomsuba have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Toomsuba in 2022 was $50,212, which is wealthy relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $200,848 for a family of four. However, Toomsuba contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Toomsuba is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Toomsuba home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Toomsuba residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Toomsuba include European, Irish, English, German, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Toomsuba is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 99.0% of all American neighborhoods.
Of note, 57.5% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
In addition, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 85.9% of the neighborhoods in MS. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.3% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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 Toomsuba are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 57.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.4% 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, 46.5% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 22.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.8%), and 8.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.7%).
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 Toomsuba, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (8.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.3%), and residents who report English roots (2.1%), and some of the residents are also of Greek ancestry (1.6%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 (47.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.0%) 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 (18.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.