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Maben, MS

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Overview


Maben is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 758 people and just one neighborhood, Maben is the 192nd largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Maben is a blue-collar town, with 46.95% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Maben is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Maben who work in sales jobs (24.38%), maintenance occupations (8.13%), and healthcare suport services (7.00%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 24.16% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

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

Maben 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

The population of Maben has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.61% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Maben in 2022 was $10,364, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $41,456 for a family of four. Maben also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.06% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Maben is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 31 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.5% of America.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Maben is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in MS, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 89.4% of the neighborhoods in Mississippi. If you are considering retiring to Mississippi, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

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 Maben are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.1% 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, 53.4% 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 22.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.0%), and 7.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% 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 Maben, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (12.7%) . 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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