West Memphis is a medium-sized city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 24,402 people and ten constituent neighborhoods, West Memphis is the 18th largest community in Arkansas.
West Memphis is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, West Memphis is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in West Memphis who work in office and administrative support (11.19%), sales jobs (10.34%), and food service (8.89%).
The citizens of West Memphis are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.77% of adults in West Memphis have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in West Memphis in 2018 was $20,249, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $80,996 for a family of four. However, West Memphis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
West Memphis is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call West Memphis home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of West Memphis residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in West Memphis include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in West Memphis is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
