Shaw - Benoit is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 3,464 people and just one neighborhood, Shaw - Benoit is the 83rd largest community in Mississippi.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Shaw - Benoit is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Shaw - Benoit is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shaw - Benoit who work in office and administrative support (16.08%), management occupations (13.89%), and food service (7.77%).
Being a small town, Shaw - Benoit does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Shaw - Benoit are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.58% of adults in Shaw - Benoit have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Shaw - Benoit in 2022 was $24,951, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,804 for a family of four. However, Shaw - Benoit contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Shaw - Benoit also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.89% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Shaw - Benoit is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Shaw - Benoit home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shaw - Benoit residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Shaw - Benoit include Irish, Italian, African, English, and Jamaican.
The most common language spoken in Shaw - Benoit is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Of particular note, 15.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
In addition, the neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
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 11 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.9% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Jamaican and Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry and 0.9% have Lebanese ancestry.
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 Shaw - Benoit are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.0% 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, 30.9% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 19.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.4%).
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 Shaw - Benoit, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (4.5%). There are also a number of people of African ancestry (4.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.6%), along with some Jamaican ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.2%) 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.