Alpena is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 384 people and just one neighborhood, Alpena is the 259th largest community in Arkansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Alpena is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.46% of the Alpena workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Alpena is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alpena who work in office and administrative support (13.26%), food service (12.71%), and healthcare suport services (11.05%).
Overall, Alpena’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The town 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, Alpena has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Alpena a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Alpena is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Alpena with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.85% of adults in Alpena have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Alpena in 2022 was $18,119, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $72,476 for a family of four.
Alpena is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Alpena home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alpena residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Alpena include German, Irish, Scottish, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Alpena is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Alpena, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 5.5% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Arkansas, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Arkansas. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children and college students.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 4.6% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Alpena are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.0% 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, 30.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.6%), and 17.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.2%).
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 Alpena, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (20.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.6%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (5.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (4.6%), 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 (48.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (13.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.