About De Valls Bluff

De Valls Bluff is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,677 people and just one neighborhood, De Valls Bluff is the 177th largest community in Arkansas.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, De Valls Bluff is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.8% of the De Valls Bluff workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, De Valls Bluff is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in De Valls Bluff who work in teaching (10.25%), office and administrative support jobs (9.13%), and sales jobs (5.90%).

You will also find that a lot of people in De Valls Bluff work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

De Valls Bluff is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of De Valls Bluff 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. 98.28% 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, De Valls Bluff does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

De Valls Bluff Information and Demographics

The rate of college-level education in De Valls Bluff is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 14.96%: just 9.92% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in De Valls Bluff in 2000 was $17,048, which is upper middle income relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $68,192 for a family of four.

De Valls Bluff is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call De Valls Bluff home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in De Valls Bluff is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in De Valls Bluff include Irish, German, English, French, and African.

The most common language spoken in De Valls Bluff is English.