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Hughes, AR

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Overview


Hughes is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,012 people and just one neighborhood, Hughes is the 196th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hughes is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.60% of the Hughes workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hughes is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Hughes who work in maintenance occupations (15.11%), office and administrative support (12.09%), and sales jobs (6.87%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In Hughes, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 38.20 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

In Hughes, just 8.55% 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 Hughes in 2018 was $18,897, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,588 for a family of four. However, Hughes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hughes also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 43.10% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Hughes is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hughes home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hughes residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Hughes include Irish, Scots-Irish, Acadian/Cajun, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Hughes is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

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 Hughes, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 9 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Hughes are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.7% 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, 36.2% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.3%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.5%).

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 Hughes, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (12.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.3%), and residents who report English roots (2.9%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.0%), along with some African ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.

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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 (14.7%) . 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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