Seminary is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 294 people and two associated neighborhoods, Seminary is the 249th largest community in Mississippi.
Overall, Seminary’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Seminary 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. Seminary has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Seminary than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Seminary may be for you.
One downside of living in Seminary is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Seminary, the average commute to work is 32.33 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Seminary does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Seminary is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.70% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Seminary in 2022 was $29,691, which is upper middle income relative to Mississippi, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,764 for a family of four. However, Seminary contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Seminary is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Seminary home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Seminary residents report their race to be White. Seminary also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.17% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Seminary include English, Irish, German, Swedish, and Maltese.
The most common language spoken in Seminary is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.