Wickes - Grannis is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 2,136 people and just one neighborhood, Wickes - Grannis is the 151st largest community in Arkansas.
Wickes - Grannis is a blue-collar town, with 47.85% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wickes - Grannis is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Wickes - Grannis who work in sales jobs (9.47%), teaching (9.28%), and maintenance occupations (8.98%).
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, Wickes - Grannis has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wickes - Grannis a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The citizens of Wickes - Grannis have a very low rate of college education: just 9.85% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Wickes - Grannis in 2022 was $23,842, which is lower middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $95,368 for a family of four. However, Wickes - Grannis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wickes - Grannis also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.86% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Wickes - Grannis is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wickes - Grannis home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wickes - Grannis residents report their race to be White. Wickes - Grannis also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.95% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wickes - Grannis include Irish, German, English, Welsh, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Wickes - Grannis is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Wickes - Grannis, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 4.5% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Furthermore, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.5% of American neighborhoods.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (24.0%) than in 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (56.8%) than found in 96.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 15 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Wickes - Grannis are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 56.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.2% 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, 43.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.6%), and 5.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (28.1%).
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 Wickes - Grannis, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (29.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report German roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.7%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (1.1%), among others. In addition, 12.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (29.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.5%) 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 (24.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.