Stamps is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,219 people and just one neighborhood, Stamps is the 190th largest community in Arkansas.
Unlike some cities, Stamps isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Stamps are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Stamps is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stamps who work in maintenance occupations (10.59%), sales jobs (9.91%), and office and administrative support (7.88%).
Also of interest is that Stamps has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Stamps is worth considering.
Being a small city, Stamps does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Stamps are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.93% of adults in Stamps have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Stamps in 2022 was $19,400, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,600 for a family of four. However, Stamps contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Stamps also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.47% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Stamps is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Stamps home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stamps residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Stamps include English, German, Irish, French, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Stamps is English. Other important languages spoken here include Mon-Khmer (Cambodian) and Spanish.
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.
One of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Significantly, 1.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% 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 Stamps are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 45.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.9% of U.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, 31.5% 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 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.4%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Stamps, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (5.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.5%), and residents who report German roots (1.9%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (11.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.