Pittsboro is a tiny village located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 154 people and just one neighborhood, Pittsboro is the 271st largest community in Mississippi.
Unlike some villages, Pittsboro isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pittsboro are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pittsboro is a village of managers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pittsboro who work in management occupations (47.92%), sales jobs (18.06%), and business and financial occupations (5.56%).
Pittsboro’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in Pittsboro is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pittsboro, the average commute to work is 38.02 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Pittsboro is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Pittsboro is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.58% of adults 25 and older in Pittsboro have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pittsboro in 2022 was $21,487, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $85,948 for a family of four.
Pittsboro is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Pittsboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pittsboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Pittsboro also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.61% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pittsboro include Irish, English, French, Russian, and Scots-Irish.
In addition, Pittsboro has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (30.04%).
The most common language spoken in Pittsboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.1% of America.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.9%) 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 Pittsboro are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.2% 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, 36.5% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.4%), and 6.6% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.4%).
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 Pittsboro, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.0%), and residents who report Mexican roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.
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 (29.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (15.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.