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Van Buren, AR
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Living in Van Buren



Van Buren is a medium-sized city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 23,755 people and eight constituent neighborhoods, Van Buren is the 21st largest community in Arkansas.

Also of interest is that Van Buren has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Van Buren is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

In terms of college education, Van Buren is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.56% of adults 25 and older in Van Buren have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Van Buren in 2018 was $26,500, 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 $106,000 for a family of four. However, Van Buren contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Van Buren is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Van Buren home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Van Buren residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Van Buren also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.08% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Van Buren include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Van Buren is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Laotian.