Mantachie is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,145 people and two associated neighborhoods, Mantachie is the 166th largest community in Mississippi.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mantachie is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.19% of the Mantachie workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mantachie is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mantachie who work in maintenance occupations (11.60%), healthcare (9.94%), and sales jobs (5.86%). 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!) Mantachie 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. Mantachie has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mantachie than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mantachie may be for you. Being a small town, Mantachie does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Mantachie with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.62% of adults in Mantachie have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Mantachie in 2022 was $88,640, which is wealthy relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $354,560 for a family of four. However, Mantachie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mantachie is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mantachie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mantachie residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mantachie include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Swiss. The most common language spoken in Mantachie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
