Pea Ridge is a somewhat small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 8,680 people and just one neighborhood, Pea Ridge is the 57th largest community in Arkansas. Much of the housing stock in Pea Ridge was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Pea Ridge economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Pea Ridge, where the median household income is $93,627.00.
Pea Ridge real estate is some of the most expensive in Arkansas, although Pea Ridge house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pea Ridge is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pea Ridge is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pea Ridge who work in sales jobs (15.08%), management occupations (13.72%), and office and administrative support (8.99%).
Of important note, Pea Ridge is also a city of artists. Pea Ridge has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Pea Ridge’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Pea Ridge telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.05% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Pea Ridge is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Pea Ridge really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Pea Ridge perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
Pea Ridge 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 education level of Pea Ridge citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.00% of adults in Pea Ridge have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pea Ridge in 2022 was $37,153, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,612 for a family of four. However, Pea Ridge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pea Ridge is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pea Ridge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pea Ridge residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pea Ridge include German, Irish, Trinidadian and Tobagonian, Scottish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Pea Ridge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is among the best neighborhoods for families in Arkansas. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 97.2% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Arkansas. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the neighborhood. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for first-time home buyers.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 1.0% have Finnish ancestry.
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 Pea Ridge are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 78.2% of America'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, 40.6% 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 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.8%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.8%).
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 Pea Ridge, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (10.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report English roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 (33.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.3%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.