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Bauxite, AR

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Overview


Bauxite is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 644 people and just one neighborhood, Bauxite is the 225th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Bauxite is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bauxite is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bauxite who work in sales jobs (17.58%), computer science and math (13.19%), and food service (6.59%).

Also of interest is that Bauxite has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Bauxite 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. Bauxite has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bauxite than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bauxite may be for you.

Being a small town, Bauxite does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Bauxite has a very low overall level of education: only 7.58% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Bauxite in 2022 was $24,036, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,144 for a family of four. However, Bauxite contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Bauxite home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bauxite residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bauxite include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and French Canadian.

The most common language spoken in Bauxite is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 46.8% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Greek ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Bauxite are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.2% 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, 30.9% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.6%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Bauxite, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.6%), along with some Greek ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (79.2%) 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 (11.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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