Lonoke is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 4,277 people and just one neighborhood, Lonoke is the 86th largest community in Arkansas.
Unlike some cities, Lonoke isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lonoke are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lonoke is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lonoke who work in office and administrative support (15.97%), management occupations (8.90%), and healthcare (8.73%).
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, Lonoke has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lonoke a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Lonoke 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 percentage of adults in Lonoke with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.19% of adults in Lonoke have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lonoke in 2022 was $33,904, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,616 for a family of four. However, Lonoke contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lonoke is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lonoke home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lonoke residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lonoke include English, Irish, German, French, and British.
The most common language spoken in Lonoke is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Of particular note, 4.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (23.1%) than in 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Lonoke 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 17.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.4% 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, 32.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.7%), and 17.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.6%).
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 Lonoke, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report German roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (73.5%) 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 (23.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.