Flippin is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,331 people and just one neighborhood, Flippin is the 186th largest community in Arkansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Flippin is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 54.98% of the Flippin workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Flippin is a city of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Flippin who work in sales jobs (8.09%), healthcare (6.43%), and healthcare suport services (5.81%).
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!) Flippin 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. Flippin has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Flippin than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Flippin may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Flippin spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 14.28 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Flippin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Flippin with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.84% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Flippin in 2022 was $20,774, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $83,096 for a family of four. However, Flippin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Flippin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Flippin residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Flippin include English, Irish, German, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Flippin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.
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 Flippin are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 38.5% 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 30.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.8%), and 15.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.7%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Flippin, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.5%), and residents who report English roots (18.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.2%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.