Tuckerman - Swifton is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 3,136 people and just one neighborhood, Tuckerman - Swifton is the 116th largest community in Arkansas.
Tuckerman - Swifton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tuckerman - Swifton is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tuckerman - Swifton who work in sales jobs (9.16%), office and administrative support (8.81%), and business and financial occupations (8.27%).
Also of interest is that Tuckerman - Swifton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
As is often the case in a small town, Tuckerman - Swifton doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Tuckerman - Swifton is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.86% of adults 25 and older in Tuckerman - Swifton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Tuckerman - Swifton in 2022 was $26,436, 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 $105,744 for a family of four. However, Tuckerman - Swifton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Tuckerman - Swifton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tuckerman - Swifton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tuckerman - Swifton include English, Irish, German, European, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Tuckerman - Swifton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Our research reveals that 88.3% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 18 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.1% of America.
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 Tuckerman - Swifton are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 45.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.3% 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, 33.1% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.
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 Tuckerman - Swifton, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report German roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.3%) 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 (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.