Crawfordsville is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 450 people and just one neighborhood, Crawfordsville is the 246th largest community in Arkansas. Crawfordsville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Crawfordsville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Crawfordsville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Crawfordsville is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Crawfordsville who work in office and administrative support (21.20%), management occupations (19.35%), and healthcare (8.29%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.68% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Crawfordsville 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 overall education level of Crawfordsville is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.21% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Crawfordsville in 2022 was $34,936, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,744 for a family of four. However, Crawfordsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Crawfordsville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Crawfordsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Crawfordsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Crawfordsville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.34% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Crawfordsville include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Crawfordsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
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 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.8% of America.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in 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 Crawfordsville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 2.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 75.3% of America'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, 48.4% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (13.1%), and 12.9% 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 97.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Crawfordsville, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.3%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (5.0%), and residents who report English roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.8%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.8%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.1%) 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 (19.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.