Walthall is a tiny village located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 114 people and just one neighborhood, Walthall is the 275th largest community in Mississippi.
Unlike some villages, Walthall isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Walthall are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Walthall is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Walthall who work in teaching (23.64%), sales jobs (14.55%), and healthcare (12.73%).
Because of many things, Walthall is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Walthall really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Walthall perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Walthall 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. Walthall has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Walthall than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Walthall may be for you.
Being a small village, Walthall does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Walthall citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.00% of adults in Walthall have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Walthall in 2022 was $38,950, which is wealthy relative to Mississippi, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $155,800 for a family of four. However, Walthall contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Walthall home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Walthall residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Walthall include Irish, Scottish, English, Dutch, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Walthall is English. Other important languages spoken here include Japanese and Italian.
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.
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 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.3% of America.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 29.4% of this neighborhood's residents have English 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 Walthall are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.4% 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, 45.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 20.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.9%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% 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 Walthall, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (29.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (3.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (27.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (89.0%) 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.