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Wickes - Grannis, AR

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Overview


Wickes - Grannis is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 2,123 people and just one neighborhood, Wickes - Grannis is the 151st largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Wickes - Grannis is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.75% of the Wickes - Grannis workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Wickes - Grannis is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wickes - Grannis who work in maintenance occupations (10.72%), teaching (8.78%), and sales jobs (7.39%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

In Wickes - Grannis, just 10.46% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Wickes - Grannis in 2018 was $23,303, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,212 for a family of four. However, Wickes - Grannis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Wickes - Grannis is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wickes - Grannis home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wickes - Grannis residents report their race to be White. Wickes - Grannis also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.06% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wickes - Grannis include Irish, German, English, French, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Wickes - Grannis is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 15 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 22.6% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Wickes - Grannis are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 45.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 40.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.0%), and 9.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (26.2%).

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 Wickes - Grannis, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report German roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.4%), among others. In addition, 13.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (26.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.8%) 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 (22.6%) . 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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