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Pleasant Plains, AR

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Overview


Pleasant Plains is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 353 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasant Plains is the 264th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Pleasant Plains isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pleasant Plains are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasant Plains is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Plains who work in healthcare (19.05%), office and administrative support (13.10%), and maintenance occupations (10.71%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town 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, Pleasant Plains is worth considering.

One downside of living in Pleasant Plains, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.30 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Pleasant Plains with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.00% of adults in Pleasant Plains have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pleasant Plains in 2018 was $23,274, 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 $93,096 for a family of four. However, Pleasant Plains contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Pleasant Plains is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 45.7% 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.

In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.1% 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 Pleasant Plains are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.8% of U.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, 33.0% 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 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.0%), and 12.6% 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

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Pleasant Plains, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report English roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.7%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (82.4%) 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 (11.9%) . 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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