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!) Woodville 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. Woodville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Woodville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Woodville may be for you.
Woodville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Woodville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.49% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Being a small town, Woodville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Woodville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.63% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Woodville in 2022 was $35,053, which is wealthy relative to Mississippi, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $140,212 for a family of four. However, Woodville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Woodville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Woodville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Woodville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Woodville include French, African, English, Irish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Woodville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
