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Danville - Ola, AR

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Overview


Danville - Ola is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 4,018 people and just one neighborhood, Danville - Ola is the 92nd largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Danville - Ola is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.38% of the Danville - Ola workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Danville - Ola is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Danville - Ola who work in maintenance occupations (11.58%), food service (7.86%), and sales jobs (6.24%).

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

Being a small town, Danville - Ola does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Danville - Ola is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.61% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Danville - Ola in 2018 was $21,976, which is lower middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $87,904 for a family of four. However, Danville - Ola contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Danville - Ola is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Danville - Ola home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Danville - Ola residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Danville - Ola also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.18% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Danville - Ola include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Danville - Ola is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.5% of American 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 22 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry.

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 Danville - Ola are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.0% 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, 42.3% 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 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.5%), and 6.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 74.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (25.0%).

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 Danville - Ola, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (14.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.4%), among others. In addition, 12.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (16.2%) . 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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