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Monette - Caraway, AR

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Overview


Monette - Caraway is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 4,035 people and just one neighborhood, Monette - Caraway is the 94th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Monette - Caraway is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.94% of the Monette - Caraway workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Monette - Caraway is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Monette - Caraway who work in farm management occupations (10.56%), management occupations (8.71%), and office and administrative support (8.65%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Monette - Caraway work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

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

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Monette - Caraway who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.58% of the adults in Monette - Caraway have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Monette - Caraway in 2022 was $27,353, which is upper middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $109,412 for a family of four. However, Monette - Caraway contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Monette - Caraway is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

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.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 23.5% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 96.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

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 26 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.4% of America.

The Neighbors

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 Monette - Caraway are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 35.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.8%), and 10.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Monette - Caraway, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report German roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (6.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (74.9%) 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 (23.5%) . 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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