Byhalia is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,367 people and five associated neighborhoods, Byhalia is the 158th largest community in Mississippi.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Byhalia is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 59.87% of the Byhalia workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Byhalia is a town of transportation and shipping workers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Byhalia who work in office and administrative support (7.66%), management occupations (7.40%), and sales jobs (6.49%). The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Byhalia has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Byhalia a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, Byhalia does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in Byhalia with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.64% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Byhalia in 2022 was $22,478, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $89,912 for a family of four. However, Byhalia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Byhalia is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Byhalia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Byhalia residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Byhalia also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.06% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Byhalia include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and European. The most common language spoken in Byhalia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
