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Dell, AR

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Overview


Dell is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 185 people and just one neighborhood, Dell is the 298th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Dell is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.74% of the Dell workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Dell is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dell who work in office and administrative support (20.65%), teaching (7.61%), and art, media, and design (6.52%).

Of important note, Dell is also a town of artists. Dell has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Dell’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Dell’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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, Dell has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Dell a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

As is often the case in a small town, Dell doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Dell are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.40% of adults in Dell have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Dell in 2018 was $36,691, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,764 for a family of four. However, Dell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Dell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dell residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Dell include German, Scots-Irish, Irish, English, and Greek.

The most common language spoken in Dell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Dell, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 90.8% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 15 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Dell are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 24.8% 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.

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, 40.4% 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 20.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 17.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Dell, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report German roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (90.8%) 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 (6.1%) . 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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