Rudy is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 130 people and just one neighborhood, Rudy is the 320th largest community in Arkansas.
Rudy is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 97.67% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Rudy is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rudy who work in sales jobs (34.88%), healthcare (16.28%), and management occupations (16.28%).
The overall crime rate in Rudy is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
As is often the case in a small town, Rudy doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Rudy who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.92% of adults in Rudy have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Rudy in 2022 was $19,731, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,924 for a family of four. Rudy also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.27% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Rudy is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rudy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rudy residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rudy include Scandinavian, German, Irish, French, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Rudy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 95.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.7% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.5% 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 Rudy are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.5% 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, 42.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.1%), and 6.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.
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 Rudy, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report English roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (34.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (95.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.