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Desha, AR

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Overview


Desha is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 715 people and just one neighborhood, Desha is the 219th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Desha is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Desha is a town of service providers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Desha who work in personal care services (26.21%), business and financial occupations (10.83%), and maintenance occupations (8.55%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Desha has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Desha a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Desha is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Desha is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Desha has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Desha is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The education level of Desha citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.09% of adults in Desha have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Desha in 2018 was $38,545, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $154,180 for a family of four.

The people who call Desha home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Desha residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Desha include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Yugoslavian.

The most common language spoken in Desha is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

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 Desha are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 70.8% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 36.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.2%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Desha, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report English roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (1.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (15.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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