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Horatio, AR

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Overview


Horatio is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 904 people and just one neighborhood, Horatio is the 203rd largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Horatio is a blue-collar town, with 55.81% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Horatio is a city of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Horatio who work in management occupations (10.08%), office and administrative support (5.68%), and teaching (4.65%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small city, Horatio does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Horatio is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.47% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Horatio in 2018 was $20,823, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $83,292 for a family of four. However, Horatio contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Horatio is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Horatio home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Horatio residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Horatio also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 33.89% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Horatio include German, Irish, Scots-Irish, English, and European.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Horatio's cultural character, accounting for 16.31% of the city’s population.

The most common language spoken in Horatio 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 50.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.0% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

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 25 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.8% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 2.4% have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Horatio are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.8% 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, 50.8% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.2%), and 9.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Horatio, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (30.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report German roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.4%), among others. In addition, 13.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (38.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.7%) 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 (19.3%) . 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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