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Lavaca, AR

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Overview


Lavaca is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 2,502 people and just one neighborhood, Lavaca is the 137th largest community in Arkansas.

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

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Lavaca isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lavaca are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lavaca is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lavaca who work in sales jobs (20.53%), teaching (12.59%), and healthcare (7.94%).

Also of interest is that Lavaca has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Lavaca is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.64% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Lavaca in 2018 was $27,081, which is upper middle income relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,324 for a family of four. However, Lavaca contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Lavaca home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lavaca residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lavaca include English, German, Irish, Italian, and European.

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

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

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 10.9% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Arkansas. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

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 Lavaca are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.3% 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 64.3% 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, 31.7% 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 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.9%), and 8.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% 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 Lavaca, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report English roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (51.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.7%) 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 (7.3%) . 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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