Bassfield is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 186 people and just one neighborhood, Bassfield is the 265th largest community in Mississippi.
Bassfield is a blue-collar town, with 48.91% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bassfield is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bassfield who work in office and administrative support (23.91%), management occupations (23.91%), and maintenance occupations (2.17%).
Bassfield’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Bassfield 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. Bassfield has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bassfield than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bassfield may be for you.
One downside of living in Bassfield, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.70 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Bassfield does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Bassfield are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.17% of adults in Bassfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Bassfield in 2022 was $16,926, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $67,704 for a family of four. Bassfield also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.18% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Bassfield is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bassfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bassfield residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Bassfield include Irish, African, European, German, and English.
The most common language spoken in Bassfield 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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 33 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (54.7%) than found in 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
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 Bassfield are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 54.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 37.7% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Bassfield, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (5.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (2.2%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (2.2%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (2.2%).
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (87.8%) 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 (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.