Emmet - Rosston is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 2,112 people and just one neighborhood, Emmet - Rosston is the 148th largest community in Arkansas.
Emmet - Rosston is a blue-collar town, with 36.00% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Emmet - Rosston is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Emmet - Rosston who work in office and administrative support (21.33%), personal care services (10.16%), and sales jobs (9.48%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Emmet - Rosston is worth considering.
One downside of living in Emmet - Rosston is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Emmet - Rosston, the average commute to work is 33.84 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Emmet - Rosston doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Emmet - Rosston, just 9.29% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Emmet - Rosston in 2022 was $27,711, which is upper middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,844 for a family of four. However, Emmet - Rosston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Emmet - Rosston is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Emmet - Rosston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Emmet - Rosston residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Emmet - Rosston include Irish, English, Czechoslovakian, German, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Emmet - Rosston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
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 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 87.5% of the neighborhoods in AR. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
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 Emmet - Rosston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.7% 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, 35.9% 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 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.4%), and 10.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.
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 Emmet - Rosston, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report Czechoslovakian roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.
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 (28.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (84.6%) 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 (15.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.