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Center Ridge, AR

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Overview


Center Ridge is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 290 people and just one neighborhood, Center Ridge is the 278th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Center Ridge is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.98% of the Center Ridge workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Center Ridge is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Center Ridge who work in office and administrative support (22.55%), community and social services (14.71%), and personal care services (4.90%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Center Ridge is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Center Ridge a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Center Ridge has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Center Ridge’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

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, Center Ridge is worth considering.

Being a small town, Center Ridge does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The overall education level of Center Ridge citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.64% of adults in Center Ridge have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Center Ridge in 2018 was $27,761, 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 $111,044 for a family of four.

The people who call Center Ridge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Center Ridge residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Center Ridge include German, Irish, Scandinavian, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Center Ridge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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.

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 97.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this 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 93.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Center Ridge are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.3% 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, 35.7% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.8%), and 14.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% 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 Center Ridge, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report German roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.4%) 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 (10.9%) . 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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