Rudy is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 130 people and just one neighborhood, Rudy is the 320th largest community in Arkansas.
Rudy is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 96.43% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Rudy is a town of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rudy who work in management occupations (25.00%), maintenance occupations (21.43%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (14.29%).
Overall, Rudy’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small town, Rudy does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Rudy is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.57% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Rudy in 2022 was $17,308, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $69,232 for a family of four. Rudy also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.97% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Rudy is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rudy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rudy residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rudy include Scandinavian, Irish, German, Welsh, and French.
The most common language spoken in Rudy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 96.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.7% of all American neighborhoods.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 88.3% of the neighborhoods in AR. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Rudy are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.9% 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 58.8% of America'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, 38.2% 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.6%), and 4.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.
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 Rudy, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (96.2%) 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.