Ozark is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 3,590 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ozark is the 107th largest community in Arkansas.When you are in Ozark, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.17% of Ozark’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Ozark is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ozark who work in community and social services (14.23%), healthcare suport services (10.52%), and office and administrative support (7.66%). 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!) Ozark 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. Ozark has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ozark than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ozark may be for you. Ozark is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The population of Ozark has a very low overall level of education: only 8.36% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. The per capita income in Ozark in 2022 was $21,995, which is lower middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $87,980 for a family of four. However, Ozark contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Ozark home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ozark residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Ozark include Irish, German, English, Welsh, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Ozark is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
