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!) Mountainburg 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. Mountainburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mountainburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mountainburg may be for you.
In Mountainburg, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.84 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Mountainburg 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 percentage of adults in Mountainburg with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.33% of adults in Mountainburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mountainburg in 2022 was $29,229, 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 $116,916 for a family of four. However, Mountainburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mountainburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mountainburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mountainburg include German, Irish, English, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Mountainburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
