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Walthall is a tiny village located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 114 people and just one neighborhood, Walthall is the 275th largest community in Mississippi.
Occupations and Workforce
Walthall is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 94.44% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Walthall is a village of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Walthall who work in teaching (16.67%), sales jobs (13.89%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (13.89%).
Also of interest is that Walthall has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, Walthall is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Walthall a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The village’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Walthall has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Walthall’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
Walthall is very much a car-oriented village. This is because the population of Walthall isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Walthall is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
The population of Walthall is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 38.54% of adults in Walthall have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Walthall in 2022 was $39,885, which is wealthy relative to Mississippi, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $159,540 for a family of four. However, Walthall contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Walthall home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Walthall residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Walthall include Irish, Scottish, English, Swedish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Walthall is English. Other important languages spoken here include Japanese and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 Walthall, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.0% of all American neighborhoods.
Real Estate
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 13 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.2% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.
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 Walthall are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.2% 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, 33.7% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 18.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.
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 Walthall, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report Italian roots (2.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (31.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (93.6%) 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
