Ackerman is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,565 people and just one neighborhood, Ackerman is the 145th largest community in Mississippi.
Unlike some towns, Ackerman isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Ackerman are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ackerman is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ackerman who work in office and administrative support (19.49%), teaching (13.50%), and sales jobs (11.28%).
Ackerman 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 percentage of adults in Ackerman who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.71% of the adults in Ackerman have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ackerman in 2022 was $24,656, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,624 for a family of four. However, Ackerman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ackerman is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ackerman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ackerman residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ackerman include English, Irish, German, European, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Ackerman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Langs. of India.
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.
Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the neighborhood has more single mother households than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.
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 Ackerman are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.6% 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, 28.2% 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 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.4%), and 21.7% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% 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 Ackerman, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (3.2%), and residents who report German roots (1.2%).
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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (9.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.