Overall, Garfield’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Garfield 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. Garfield has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Garfield than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Garfield may be for you.
Being a small town, Garfield does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Garfield are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.74% of adults in Garfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Garfield in 2022 was $39,776, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $159,104 for a family of four. However, Garfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Garfield is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Garfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Garfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Garfield also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.39% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Garfield include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and French.
The most common language spoken in Garfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
