Byhalia is a very small town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 1,339 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Byhalia is the 158th largest community in Mississippi.
When you are in Byhalia, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 56.84% of Byhalia’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Byhalia is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Byhalia who work in sales jobs (14.21%), maintenance occupations (7.64%), and food service (4.97%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Byhalia has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Byhalia has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Byhalia than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Byhalia may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Byhalia doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Byhalia with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.10% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Byhalia in 2018 was $18,323, 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 $73,292 for a family of four. However, Byhalia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Byhalia also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.64% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Byhalia is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Byhalia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Byhalia residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Byhalia also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.97% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Byhalia include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and French.
The most common language spoken in Byhalia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.