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Weir, MS

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Overview


Weir is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 440 people and just one neighborhood, Weir is the 220th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Weir, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 52.70% of Weir’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Weir is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Weir who work in teaching (11.62%), healthcare suport services (10.79%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.30%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Weir 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. Weir has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Weir than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Weir may be for you.

One downside of living in Weir, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.76 minutes every day commuting to work.

Weir 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.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Weir rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.22% of adults 25 and older in Weir have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Weir in 2022 was $17,661, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,644 for a family of four. Weir also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.94% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Weir is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Weir home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Weir residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Weir include English, African, Jamaican, German, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Weir is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Weir are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.1% 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, 38.4% 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.2%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Weir, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.3%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (77.3%) 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 (20.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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