Sunflower is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 895 people and just one neighborhood, Sunflower is the 174th largest community in Mississippi.
When you are in Sunflower, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.31% of Sunflower’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Sunflower is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sunflower who work in sales jobs (13.44%), management occupations (10.71%), and maintenance occupations (10.25%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.26% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Overall, Sunflower’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Sunflower is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Sunflower citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.68% of adults 25 and older in Sunflower have a college degree.
The per capita income in Sunflower in 2022 was $20,558, 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 $82,232 for a family of four. However, Sunflower contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Sunflower also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 48.32% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Sunflower is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sunflower home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sunflower residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Sunflower include English, Irish, French, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Sunflower is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (61.9%) than found in 97.3% 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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 17 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Sunflower are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 61.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.3% 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, 33.4% 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 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.6%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.6%).
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 Sunflower, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (5.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (5.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (2.5%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (44.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.