Magazine is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 744 people and just one neighborhood, Magazine is the 218th largest community in Arkansas.
Magazine is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Magazine is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Magazine who work in office and administrative support (31.65%), management occupations (10.36%), and teaching (9.24%).
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!) Magazine 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. Magazine has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Magazine than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Magazine may be for you.
Magazine 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 citizens of Magazine have a very low rate of college education: just 6.94% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Magazine in 2022 was $21,130, 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 $84,520 for a family of four. However, Magazine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Magazine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Magazine residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Magazine include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Magazine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
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 93.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Magazine are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 39.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.8%), and 11.3% 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 95.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.0%).
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 Magazine, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.8%), and residents who report English roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.5%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (38.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.2%) 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 (14.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.