Bude - Meadville is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,857 people and just one neighborhood, Bude - Meadville is the 133rd largest community in Mississippi.
Unlike some towns, Bude - Meadville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Bude - Meadville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bude - Meadville is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bude - Meadville who work in food service (17.01%), sales jobs (11.39%), and office and administrative support (10.29%).
As is often the case in a small town, Bude - Meadville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Bude - Meadville is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.16% of adults 25 and older in Bude - Meadville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bude - Meadville in 2022 was $18,810, which is low income relative to Mississippi and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,240 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 38.07% 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 Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Bude - Meadville include English, German, Irish, French Canadian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Bude - Meadville is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Arabic.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Bude - Meadville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in the United States. The neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (58.3%) than found in 96.6% 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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.1% of all American neighborhoods.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 29.7% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more 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 French Canadian 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 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 98.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 58.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.6% 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, 30.3% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.3%), and 15.2% 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 (7.9%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (5.4%), and residents who report German roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (4.9%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.9%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.9%) 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 (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.