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Lafe, AR

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Overview


Lafe is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 420 people and just one neighborhood, Lafe is the 252nd largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lafe is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.03% of the Lafe workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lafe is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lafe who work in office and administrative support (11.92%), food service (9.27%), and sales jobs (7.95%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

As is often the case in a small town, Lafe doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Lafe has a very low overall level of education: only 7.93% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Lafe in 2018 was $19,295, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,180 for a family of four. However, Lafe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lafe also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.91% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Lafe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lafe residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Lafe include Irish, German, English, Dutch, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Lafe is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Portuguese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Lafe are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.9% of U.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, 40.4% 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 29.4% 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 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% 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 Lafe, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report German roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.0%), along with some French 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.1%) 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 (10.1%) . 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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