McCrory - Cotton Plant is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 3,692 people and just one neighborhood, McCrory - Cotton Plant is the 98th largest community in Arkansas.
McCrory - Cotton Plant is a blue-collar town, with 36.33% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, McCrory - Cotton Plant is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in McCrory - Cotton Plant who work in management occupations (12.68%), sales jobs (10.84%), and office and administrative support (10.47%).
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) McCrory - Cotton Plant 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. McCrory - Cotton Plant has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in McCrory - Cotton Plant than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, McCrory - Cotton Plant may be for you.
Being a small town, McCrory - Cotton Plant does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of McCrory - Cotton Plant rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.82% of adults 25 and older in McCrory - Cotton Plant have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in McCrory - Cotton Plant in 2022 was $28,607, which is upper middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,428 for a family of four. However, McCrory - Cotton Plant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
McCrory - Cotton Plant is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McCrory - Cotton Plant home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McCrory - Cotton Plant residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in McCrory - Cotton Plant include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in McCrory - Cotton Plant is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 McCrory - Cotton Plant, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 11 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Our research reveals that 89.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 McCrory - Cotton Plant are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.2% 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, 33.1% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.
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 McCrory - Cotton Plant, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.1%), and residents who report German roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.9%).
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 (43.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (89.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.