Caldwell - Colt is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,991 people and just one neighborhood, Caldwell - Colt is the 152nd largest community in Arkansas.
Unlike some towns, Caldwell - Colt isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Caldwell - Colt are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Caldwell - Colt is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Caldwell - Colt who work in sales jobs (14.55%), management occupations (9.26%), and office and administrative support (8.73%).
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!) Caldwell - Colt 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. Caldwell - Colt has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Caldwell - Colt than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Caldwell - Colt may be for you.
Being a small town, Caldwell - Colt does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Caldwell - Colt is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.09% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Caldwell - Colt in 2022 was $25,715, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,860 for a family of four. However, Caldwell - Colt contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Caldwell - Colt is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Caldwell - Colt home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Caldwell - Colt residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Caldwell - Colt include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Caldwell - Colt is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 92.1% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.6% of all American neighborhoods.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 42 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.6% of America.
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 Caldwell - Colt are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 31.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.8%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.
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 Caldwell - Colt, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.0%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (92.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.