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Guy, AR

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Overview


Guy is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 745 people and just one neighborhood, Guy is the 217th largest community in Arkansas. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Guy, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Guy, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Guy’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Guy does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $70,000.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Guy is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Guy is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Guy who work in office and administrative support (17.97%), teaching (16.80%), and sales jobs (8.59%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Guy is worth considering.

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

Demographics

The education level of Guy citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.63% of adults in Guy have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Guy in 2022 was $32,196, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,784 for a family of four. However, Guy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Guy is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Guy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Guy residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Guy include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Guy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 89.2% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.4% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Arkansas. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

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 Guy are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.4% 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, 40.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.5%), and 15.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.

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 Guy, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.3%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.2%) 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 (6.0%) . 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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