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Leachville, AR

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Overview


Leachville is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,944 people and just one neighborhood, Leachville is the 155th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Leachville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 55.01% of Leachville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Leachville is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Leachville who work in farm management occupations (10.98%), office and administrative support (9.41%), and maintenance occupations (9.17%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Leachville work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

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

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

Demographics

The citizens of Leachville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.14% of adults in Leachville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Leachville in 2022 was $23,053, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $92,212 for a family of four. However, Leachville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Leachville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.78% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Leachville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Leachville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leachville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Leachville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.01% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Leachville include Irish, English, German, Dutch, and Czech.

The most common language spoken in Leachville 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.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 54.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.5% of American neighborhoods.

Furthermore, it used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 7.7% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 94.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Leachville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.3% 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, 54.5% 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 21.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (11.0%), and 7.7% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Leachville, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report English roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.1%) 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 (16.9%) . 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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