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Walnut Ridge, AR

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Overview


Walnut Ridge is a somewhat small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 5,492 people and just one neighborhood, Walnut Ridge is the 71st largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Walnut Ridge is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Walnut Ridge is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Walnut Ridge who work in sales jobs (13.90%), teaching (11.74%), and office and administrative support (9.97%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Walnut Ridge 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.

Demographics

The education level of Walnut Ridge citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.67% of adults 25 and older in Walnut Ridge have a college degree.

The per capita income in Walnut Ridge in 2018 was $25,403, 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 $101,612 for a family of four. However, Walnut Ridge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Walnut Ridge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Walnut Ridge residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Walnut Ridge include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Walnut Ridge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.2% of all American neighborhoods.

People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.8% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Arkansas, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Arkansas. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.

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 Walnut Ridge are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 48.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.2% 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, 33.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.8%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Walnut Ridge, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (90.8%) 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 (6.9%) . 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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