Joiner - Dyess is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,648 people and just one neighborhood, Joiner - Dyess is the 171st largest community in Arkansas.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Joiner - Dyess is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Joiner - Dyess is a town of managers, service providers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Joiner - Dyess who work in management occupations (27.18%), farm management occupations (16.80%), and office and administrative support (8.73%).
Another important characteristic of Joiner - Dyess is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
Joiner - Dyess is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Joiner - Dyess, just 9.44% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Joiner - Dyess in 2022 was $31,836, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,344 for a family of four. However, Joiner - Dyess contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Joiner - Dyess also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.28% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Joiner - Dyess is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Joiner - Dyess home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Joiner - Dyess residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Joiner - Dyess include English, German, Irish, Dutch, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Joiner - Dyess is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 16.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
More people in choose to walk to work each day (14.0%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 12 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (54.7%) than found in 95.7% 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.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Joiner - Dyess are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 54.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 37.2% 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 17.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (16.8%), and 16.6% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Joiner - Dyess, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.1%), and residents who report Mexican roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.6%).
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 (35.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (14.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.