Mountain Pine is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 577 people and just one neighborhood, Mountain Pine is the 229th largest community in Arkansas. Mountain Pine has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mountain Pine is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mountain Pine is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mountain Pine who work in sales jobs (23.53%), office and administrative support (17.19%), and food service (7.24%).
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, Mountain Pine has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mountain Pine a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small city, Mountain Pine doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Mountain Pine ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.52% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Mountain Pine in 2022 was $19,988, which is lower middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $79,952 for a family of four. However, Mountain Pine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mountain Pine is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mountain Pine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mountain Pine residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mountain Pine include Irish, Syrian, German, African, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Mountain Pine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Native American languages.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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 Mountain Pine are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 28.7% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.6%), and 20.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 89.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Mountain Pine, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report Mexican roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (9.1%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.6%) 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 (13.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.