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Mountain Pine, AR

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Overview


Mountain Pine is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 577 people and just one neighborhood, Mountain Pine is the 229th largest community in Arkansas. Mountain Pine has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Mountain Pine isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mountain Pine are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mountain Pine is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mountain Pine who work in sales jobs (23.53%), office and administrative support (17.19%), and food service (7.24%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Mountain Pine is worth considering.

Mountain Pine is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Mountain Pine has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.52% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Mountain Pine in 2018 was $19,988, 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 $79,952 for a family of four. However, Mountain Pine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Mountain Pine is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mountain Pine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mountain Pine residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mountain Pine include Irish, Syrian, German, African, and Hungarian.

The most common language spoken in Mountain Pine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Native American 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 Mountain Pine, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

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 Mountain Pine are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.6% 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, 28.7% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.6%), and 20.8% 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 89.9% 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 Mountain Pine, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report Mexican roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (9.1%), among others.

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 (47.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.6%) 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 (13.8%) . 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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