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Prescott, AR

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Overview


Prescott is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 3,035 people and just one neighborhood, Prescott is the 119th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Prescott is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Prescott is a city of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Prescott who work in food service (23.84%), community and social services (9.44%), and teaching (7.92%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

In Prescott, just 6.69% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Prescott in 2018 was $17,023, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $68,092 for a family of four. Prescott also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.95% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.8%) living in the neighborhood.

Real Estate

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 92.1% 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 Prescott are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 49.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.4% 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, 37.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.8%), and 7.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% 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 Prescott, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report German roots (1.6%), and some of the residents are also of Hungarian ancestry (1.3%).

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (17.2%) . 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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