If you live in ZIP code 39216, many of your neighbors are white, most speak English and the majority are college graduates who have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher.
The 39216 ZIP code includes part of Fondren, Woodland Hills, LOHO and Lakeland Drive from I-55 to the Pearl River and has a total population of 4,061 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Within the 39216 ZIP code there are 1,637 households and 464 employer establishments, according to data from the bureau.
The median age for a resident a few years shy of 40.
The median age is 37.9 compared to 38.6, which is the median age for a resident of the state.
Almost 30 percent of the population in the 39216 ZIP code are senior adults. Twenty-nine percent of the population is 65 years old or older compared to 16.8 percent of the state’s population that falls in that age category. To it break down that age category a little bit more, 16.7 percent are 65 years old to 74 years old, 8.9 percent are 75 to 84 years old and 3.6 percent are 85 years or older.
The average family size in the 39216 ZIP code is 3.24 compared to 3.17 in the state of Mississippi. Children under 18 account for 19.4 percent of residents compared to 23.5 percent in the state.
The attainment of education is important to residents in the 39216 ZIP code.
The data shows 61.4 percent of the population has a bachelor’s degree or higher degree compared to 24.8 percent of the population in the state. Sixty percent of the population is enrolled in schools (kindergarten through twelfth grade) compared to 70.8 percent in the state.
Almost 25 percent of residents in the 39126 ZIP code work in local, state and federal jobs. Those jobs employ 24.4 percent of workers compared to 18.5 percent in the state.
Most of the workers, 72.2 percent, drove themselves to work; 14.5 percent, walked; and 11.9 worked at home.
The 39216 ZIP code incudes 245 employer establishments with less than five employees; 81 establishments with five to nine employees; 60 establishments with 10 to 19 employees; and 50 establishments with 20 to 49 employees.
More than half of the households in the 39216 ZIP code are female led with no male present. Female householder, no male present, accounts for 52.4 percent of households, while married couple family accounts for 21.4 percent and male householder, no spouse present, accounts for 24.1 percent.
Never married in the 39216 ZIP code accounts for 42.8 percent of residents compared to 34.6 in the state of Mississippi.
Less than half of the residents in the 39216 own their own homes. The homeownership rate is 44.5 percent compared to 69.7 percent for the state.
Housing valued between $100,000 and $149,999 accounts for 71 percent of the homes; $200,000 to $299,999, 32 percent; $300,000 to $499,999, 16.6 percent; $500,000 to $999,999, 15.2 percent; $50,000 to $99,999, 4.4 percent; and less than $50,000, 1.4 percent.
For those who rent, the median gross rent in the 39216 ZIP code is $968 per month compared to $831 per month for the state.
English is the main language spoken in the 39216 ZIP code. English accounts for 96 percent of the population; Spanish, 1.5 percent; other Indo-European languages, 1.7 percent; and Asian and Pacific Islander languages, 0.4 percent.
Just a small percentage of the population in 39216 speaks a foreign language in their homes. About 4 percent of the population speaks a language other than English in their homes, compared to 3.8 percent of people in Mississippi who speak another language at home other than English.
Of the population in the 39216 ZIP code, 1.9 percent are foreign born compared, which is slightly less than Mississippi’s foreign-born population of 2.1 percent. Of the foreign-born population, 54 percent are naturalized U.S. citizens and 46 percent are not.
Veterans amount to 7.4 percent of the population in the 39216 ZIP code compared to 6.9 percent of the population in Mississippi.
Residents with disabilities account for 16.4 percent of those in the 39216 ZIP code compared to 18.1 in the state.
Residents without healthcare coverage amount of 6.4 percent in the 39216 ZIP code compared to 11.9 percent in the state.
Last year, 6.1 percent of the population in the 39216 ZIP code moved from a different state compared to 2 percent of the population that moved from a different state to Mississippi.
