It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Mena 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. Mena has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mena than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mena may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Mena spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.53 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Mena does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Mena is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.89% of adults 25 and older in Mena have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mena in 2022 was $31,985, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,940 for a family of four. However, Mena contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mena home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mena residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mena include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Mena is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
