Gillham is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 158 people and just one neighborhood, Gillham is the 309th largest community in Arkansas.
Gillham is a blue-collar town, with 71.01% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Gillham is a town of transportation and shipping workers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gillham who work in sales jobs (5.80%), management occupations (5.80%), and maintenance occupations (4.35%).
The overall crime rate in Gillham is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Gillham has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Gillham a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Gillham doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Gillham has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.56% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Gillham in 2022 was $26,203, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,812 for a family of four. However, Gillham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Gillham home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gillham residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Gillham include German, Irish, French, Dutch, and English.
The most common language spoken in Gillham is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Gillham, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.1% of American neighborhoods.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.3% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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 Gillham are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 44.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 21.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.9%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (15.4%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Gillham, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (19.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report English roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (38.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.7%) 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 (14.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.