Ackerman is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,549 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, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ackerman who work in office and administrative support (25.14%), teaching (10.54%), and maintenance occupations (6.84%).
As is often the case in a small town, Ackerman doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Ackerman rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.31% of adults 25 and older in Ackerman 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 Ackerman in 2022 was $22,049, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $88,196 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, Welsh, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Ackerman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Langs. of India.
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There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.
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 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 93.6% 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.
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In the neighborhood, 33.9% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.7%), and 15.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 (14.2%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.0%), and residents who report African roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.4%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.
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 (57.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.6%) 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 (9.8%) and 6.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.