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Fort Apache, AZ

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Overview


Fort Apache is a tiny town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 113 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Apache is the 186th largest community in Arizona.

Occupations and Workforce

Fort Apache is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 100.00% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Fort Apache is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Apache who work in healthcare (36.17%), law enforcement and fire fighting (23.40%), and food service (21.28%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Fort Apache is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

Despite being a small town, Fort Apache has a lot of people using the bus to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the bus are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.

Demographics

Fort Apache ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.90% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Fort Apache in 2018 was $16,978, which is lower middle income relative to Arizona, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $67,912 for a family of four. However, Fort Apache contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Fort Apache home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Apache residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Fort Apache include Italian, German, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Fort Apache is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Navajo.

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.

People

Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the neighborhood has more single mother households than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 23 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.1% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 90.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 53.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.9% 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 Fort Apache are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.0% 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, 38.1% 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 37.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.1%), and 11.7% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Native American languages, spoken by 53.0% of households. Some people also speak English (39.3%).

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 Fort Apache, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (90.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (4.7%).

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 (46.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (67.4%) 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 (15.0%) and 9.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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