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Cave City, AR

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Overview


Cave City is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,979 people and just one neighborhood, Cave City is the 162nd largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Cave City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.04% of Cave City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cave City is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cave City who work in sales jobs (12.89%), food service (8.50%), and office and administrative support (8.37%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The city 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, Cave City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cave City a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small city, Cave City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Cave City have a very low rate of college education: just 9.43% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Cave City in 2022 was $20,252, 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 $81,008 for a family of four. However, Cave City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (34.4%) than in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 6.0% 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.

Diversity

Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Cave City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 37.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.9%), and 18.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.0%).

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 Cave City, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report English roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Portuguese ancestry (1.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (63.7%) 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 (34.4%) . 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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