Palestine - Wheatley is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 2,034 people and just one neighborhood, Palestine - Wheatley is the 149th largest community in Arkansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Palestine - Wheatley is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.59% of the Palestine - Wheatley workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Palestine - Wheatley is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Palestine - Wheatley who work in management occupations (14.11%), office and administrative support (14.02%), and healthcare (5.49%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Palestine - Wheatley has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Palestine - Wheatley a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Palestine - Wheatley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Palestine - Wheatley, just 10.09% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Palestine - Wheatley in 2022 was $24,461, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,844 for a family of four. However, Palestine - Wheatley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Palestine - Wheatley is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Palestine - Wheatley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Palestine - Wheatley residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Palestine - Wheatley include Irish, English, German, European, and African.
The most common language spoken in Palestine - Wheatley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 11 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.9% of America.
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 4.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.7% 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 Palestine - Wheatley are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.7% 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, 31.8% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.5%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.0%).
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 Palestine - Wheatley, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (6.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.3%), and residents who report German roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.6%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 (36.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.8%) 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 (11.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.