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Emmet - Rosston is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 2,127 people and just one neighborhood, Emmet - Rosston is the 148th largest community in Arkansas.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Emmet - Rosston is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.00% of the Emmet - Rosston workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 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%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Emmet - Rosston’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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, Emmet - Rosston has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Emmet - Rosston a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
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.
Demographics
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.
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.
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 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
People
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 89.7% 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.
Diversity
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.
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 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.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
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.
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 (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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
