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Plainview, AR

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Overview


Plainview is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 463 people and just one neighborhood, Plainview is the 244th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Plainview is a blue-collar town, with 39.04% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Plainview is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Plainview who work in office and administrative support (28.07%), food service (7.46%), and sales jobs (6.14%).

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

One downside of living in Plainview is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Plainview, the average commute to work is 31.66 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The population of Plainview has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.11% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Plainview in 2018 was $25,004, which is upper middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,016 for a family of four.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 5 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.4% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Plainview are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.9% 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 56.6% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 41.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 20.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.6%), and 14.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.3%).

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 Plainview, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (5.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.4%), and residents who report German roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.6%), along with some French 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (75.9%) 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 (16.4%) . 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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