Monette - Caraway is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 4,034 people and just one neighborhood, Monette - Caraway is the 94th largest community in Arkansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Monette - Caraway is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.33% of the Monette - Caraway workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Monette - Caraway is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Monette - Caraway who work in farm management occupations (10.38%), management occupations (10.00%), and office and administrative support (8.73%).
Another important characteristic of Monette - Caraway is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Monette - Caraway has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Monette - Caraway has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Monette - Caraway than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Monette - Caraway may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Monette - Caraway doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Monette - Caraway rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.47% of adults 25 and older in Monette - Caraway have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Monette - Caraway in 2022 was $28,333, 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 $113,332 for a family of four. However, Monette - Caraway contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Monette - Caraway home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Monette - Caraway residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Monette - Caraway include Irish, English, German, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Monette - Caraway is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Monette - Caraway, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 10.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (26.5%) than in 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 93.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Monette - Caraway are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.4% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.4%), and 10.4% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.7%).
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 Monette - Caraway, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report German roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (69.5%) 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 (26.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.