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Junction City, AR

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Overview


Junction City is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 486 people and just one neighborhood, Junction City is the 236th largest community in Arkansas.

Junction City real estate is some of the most expensive in Arkansas, although Junction City house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Junction City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Junction City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Junction City is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Junction City who work in office and administrative support (25.10%), maintenance occupations (21.46%), and management occupations (11.74%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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

Demographics

The citizens of Junction City are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.12% of adults in Junction City having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Junction City in 2018 was $20,617, 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 $82,468 for a family of four. However, Junction City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Junction City is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.0% of all 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 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.5% of America.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Junction City is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in AR, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.1% of the neighborhoods in Arkansas. If you are considering retiring to Arkansas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

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 Junction City are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 51.6% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 46.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.7%), and 13.7% 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 95.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Junction City, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.1%), and residents who report Mexican roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (91.8%) 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 (5.5%) . 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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