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Piggott, AR

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Overview


Piggott is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 3,545 people and just one neighborhood, Piggott is the 103rd largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Piggott is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Piggott is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Piggott who work in management occupations (11.95%), food service (10.33%), and office and administrative support (9.39%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Piggott is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.04% of adults 25 and older in Piggott have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Piggott in 2018 was $24,537, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,148 for a family of four. However, Piggott contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.

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 Piggott are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.8% 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, 34.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.2%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Piggott, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.2%) 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 (16.3%) . 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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