Hackett is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 836 people and just one neighborhood, Hackett is the 212th largest community in Arkansas.
Hackett is a blue-collar town, with 38.21% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hackett is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hackett who work in office and administrative support (9.25%), teaching (8.06%), and sales jobs (6.57%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.98% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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, Hackett has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hackett a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Hackett 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 citizens of Hackett have a very low rate of college education: just 8.32% 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 Hackett in 2022 was $23,893, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $95,572 for a family of four. However, Hackett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hackett is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hackett home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hackett residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Hackett include English, German, Irish, Dutch West Indian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Hackett is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry.
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 Hackett are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.7% 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, 39.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.3%), and 12.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).
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 Hackett, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (40.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.9%) 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 (17.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.