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Huntsville, AR

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Overview


Huntsville is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 3,378 people and just one neighborhood, Huntsville is the 124th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Huntsville is a blue-collar town, with 38.99% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Huntsville is a city of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Huntsville who work in maintenance occupations (8.79%), office and administrative support (8.53%), and sales jobs (7.10%).

Also of interest is that Huntsville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small city, Huntsville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Huntsville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.21% of adults in Huntsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Huntsville in 2022 was $26,663, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,652 for a family of four. However, Huntsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Huntsville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Huntsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Huntsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Huntsville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.06% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Huntsville include English, Irish, Italian, German, and Scots-Irish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 Huntsville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 38.0% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.0%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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 Huntsville, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.8%), among others.

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 (46.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (12.2%) . 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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