Heber Springs is a somewhat small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 7,201 people and four associated neighborhoods, Heber Springs is the 56th largest community in Arkansas.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Heber Springs is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Heber Springs is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Heber Springs who work in food service (11.99%), sales jobs (11.88%), and healthcare (7.63%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.99% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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. The city 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, Heber Springs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Heber Springs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small city, Heber Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Heber Springs are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.53% of adults in Heber Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Heber Springs in 2022 was $30,995, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,980 for a family of four. However, Heber Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Heber Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Heber Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Heber Springs include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Heber Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
