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Hickory Flat, MS

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Overview


Hickory Flat is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 486 people and just one neighborhood, Hickory Flat is the 211th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hickory Flat is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 55.30% of the Hickory Flat workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hickory Flat is a town of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hickory Flat who work in teaching (13.82%), sales jobs (7.83%), and maintenance occupations (5.07%).

A relatively large number of people in Hickory Flat telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.22% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

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

Demographics

The education level of Hickory Flat citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.54% of adults 25 and older in Hickory Flat have a college degree.

The per capita income in Hickory Flat in 2022 was $15,381, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $61,524 for a family of four. However, Hickory Flat contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hickory Flat also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.75% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Hickory Flat is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.

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 45.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.3% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, 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 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.5% of America.

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.4% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 28.3% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

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 Hickory Flat are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 45.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.5%), and 4.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% 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 Hickory Flat, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (28.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report German roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.4%), along with some Swedish 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 (40.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.8%) 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 (11.9%) . 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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