Bude - Meadville is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,865 people and just one neighborhood, Bude - Meadville is the 133rd largest community in Mississippi.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bude - Meadville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bude - Meadville is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bude - Meadville who work in food service (15.03%), office and administrative support (10.26%), and sales jobs (10.12%).
As is often the case in a small town, Bude - Meadville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Bude - Meadville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.36% of the adults in Bude - Meadville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bude - Meadville in 2022 was $18,987, 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 $75,948 for a family of four. However, Bude - Meadville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bude - Meadville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.47% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Bude - Meadville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bude - Meadville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bude - Meadville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bude - Meadville include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Bude - Meadville is English. Other important languages spoken here include French 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.
One of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America. The neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (61.6%) than found in 97.2% 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.
Our research reveals that 89.3% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 2.9% have French Canadian ancestry.
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 Bude - Meadville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 61.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 30.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.4%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households.
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 Bude - Meadville, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (7.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.3%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (51.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (89.3%) 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 (6.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.