Hughes is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 992 people and just one neighborhood, Hughes is the 196th largest community in Arkansas.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Hughes is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hughes is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hughes who work in office and administrative support (19.75%), maintenance occupations (9.26%), and sales jobs (8.64%).
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Hughes is worth considering.
One downside of living in Hughes is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Hughes, the average commute to work is 36.33 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Hughes doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Hughes, just 6.46% 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 Hughes in 2022 was $21,926, 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 $87,704 for a family of four. However, Hughes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hughes also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 42.43% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Hughes is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hughes home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hughes residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Hughes include Irish, Scots-Irish, Acadian/Cajun, German, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Hughes is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.5% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.4% of U.S. 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 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hughes are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.7% 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, 31.7% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.5%), and 16.6% 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 94.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.5%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Hughes, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (7.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (6.2%), and residents who report English roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.2%), along with some African 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 (21.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.