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Cushman, AR

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Overview


Cushman is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 446 people and just one neighborhood, Cushman is the 249th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cushman is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.80% of the Cushman workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Cushman is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Cushman who work in food service (16.39%), personal care services (8.20%), and healthcare (8.20%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Cushman 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. Cushman has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cushman than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cushman may be for you.

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

Demographics

In Cushman, just 8.39% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Cushman in 2018 was $22,557, 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 $90,228 for a family of four. However, Cushman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Cushman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.3% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, 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 23 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.2% of America.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.9%) living in the neighborhood.

In addition, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 89.1% of the neighborhoods in AR. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

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 Cushman are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.4% 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, 34.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.2%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% 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 Cushman, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report German roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (66.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.1%) 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 (12.2%) . 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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