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El Paso, AR

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Overview


El Paso is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 267 people and just one neighborhood, El Paso is the 283rd largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in El Paso, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.64% of El Paso’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, El Paso is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in El Paso who work in management occupations (28.41%), sales jobs (14.39%), and office and administrative support (5.54%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, El Paso’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, El Paso has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes El Paso a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in El Paso, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 42.98 minutes every day commuting to work.

El Paso is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because El Paso is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. El Paso has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

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

Demographics

The citizens of El Paso are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.50% of adults in El Paso having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in El Paso in 2018 was $22,714, which is lower middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,856 for a family of four.

The people who call El Paso home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of El Paso residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in El Paso include Irish, English, Scottish, German, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in El Paso 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 93.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.8% of all American neighborhoods.

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 37 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.4% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.4% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 8.3% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Arkansas. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

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 El Paso are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 61.5% of America'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, 34.6% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.

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 El Paso, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.1%), and residents who report German roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (46.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (93.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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