Mountainburg is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 529 people and two associated neighborhoods, Mountainburg is the 233rd largest community in Arkansas.Mountainburg is a blue-collar town, with 51.37% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Mountainburg is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mountainburg who work in office and administrative support (15.29%), food service (8.24%), and management occupations (7.06%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.26% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. 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!) Mountainburg 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. Mountainburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mountainburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mountainburg may be for you. One downside of living in Mountainburg is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mountainburg, the average commute to work is 36.68 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small city, Mountainburg doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In Mountainburg, just 8.79% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Mountainburg in 2022 was $24,000, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,000 for a family of four. However, Mountainburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Mountainburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mountainburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mountainburg include Irish, English, German, French, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Mountainburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
