Boyle is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 497 people and just one neighborhood, Boyle is the 207th largest community in Mississippi.
Boyle is a blue-collar town, with 44.12% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Boyle is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Boyle who work in teaching (13.60%), sales jobs (12.50%), and healthcare (9.19%).
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, Boyle has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Boyle a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Boyle 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.
The education level of Boyle citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 37.47% of adults in Boyle have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Boyle in 2022 was $21,770, which is lower middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $87,080 for a family of four. However, Boyle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Boyle is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Boyle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Boyle residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Boyle include Slovene, German, English, Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Boyle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Boyle 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 85.8% of the neighborhoods in Mississippi. If you are considering retiring to Mississippi, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 Boyle are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.7% 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, 32.6% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.4%), and 20.3% 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 93.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.8%).
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 Boyle, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (7.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.0%), and residents who report German roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.7%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (11.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.