Crenshaw is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 613 people and just one neighborhood, Crenshaw is the 197th largest community in Mississippi.
Unlike some towns, Crenshaw isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Crenshaw are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Crenshaw is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Crenshaw who work in sales jobs (15.12%), food service (11.34%), and office and administrative support (10.65%).
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, Crenshaw has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Crenshaw a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Crenshaw is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Crenshaw, the average commute to work is 34.49 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Crenshaw does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Crenshaw is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.60% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Crenshaw in 2022 was $17,217, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $68,868 for a family of four. Crenshaw also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.32% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Crenshaw is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Crenshaw home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Crenshaw residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Crenshaw include English, Irish, Italian, European, and German.
The most common language spoken in Crenshaw is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 34.4%, which is higher than 96.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 24 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.8% of America.
Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Crenshaw are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.6% 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, 35.4% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.7%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% 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 Crenshaw, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.5%).
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (39.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (81.6%) 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 (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.