Lafe is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 420 people and just one neighborhood, Lafe is the 252nd largest community in Arkansas.
Lafe is a blue-collar town, with 45.03% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lafe is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lafe who work in office and administrative support (11.92%), food service (9.27%), and sales jobs (7.95%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Lafe has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Lafe has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lafe than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lafe may be for you.
Lafe 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.
The population of Lafe has a very low overall level of education: only 7.93% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Lafe in 2022 was $19,295, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,180 for a family of four. However, Lafe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lafe also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.91% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Lafe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lafe residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Lafe include Irish, German, English, Dutch, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Lafe is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Portuguese.
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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Lafe are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 40.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.7%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.
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 Lafe, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report German roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (45.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.1%) 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 (10.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.