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, Mena is worth considering.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.53 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Mena does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Mena who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.89% of the adults in Mena have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mena in 2022 was $31,985, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,940 for a family of four. However, Mena contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mena home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mena residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mena include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Mena is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
