Falkner is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 430 people and just one neighborhood, Falkner is the 222nd largest community in Mississippi.
Falkner is a blue-collar town, with 39.22% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Falkner is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Falkner who work in office and administrative support (17.24%), sales jobs (15.95%), and maintenance occupations (11.64%).
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, Falkner has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Falkner a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Falkner doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Falkner who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.13% of the adults in Falkner have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Falkner in 2022 was $23,728, which is middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $94,912 for a family of four. However, Falkner contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Falkner is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Falkner home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Falkner residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Falkner include Irish, English, German, European, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Falkner is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 95.1% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.6% of all American neighborhoods.
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 23.4% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.2% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish 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 Falkner are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 39.8% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 6.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).
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 Falkner, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report German roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (45.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (95.1%) 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.