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Carson, MS

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Overview


Carson is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 3,034 people and just one neighborhood, Carson is the 92nd largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Carson is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.01% of the Carson workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Carson is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Carson who work in office and administrative support (13.52%), sales jobs (11.29%), and healthcare (6.20%).

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

One downside of living in Carson is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Carson, the average commute to work is 31.94 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Carson doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Carson with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.91% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Carson in 2022 was $23,738, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $94,952 for a family of four. However, Carson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Carson is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 48.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.4% of American neighborhoods.

People

Of note, 65.5% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 20 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Carson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 65.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.0% 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, 48.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 18.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.6%), and 16.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Carson, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (8.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.0%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (3.0%), along with some Polish 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (87.9%) 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 (6.0%) . 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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