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McCaskill, AR

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Overview


McCaskill is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 56 people and just one neighborhood, McCaskill is the 341st largest community in Arkansas. Much of the housing stock in McCaskill was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local McCaskill economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in McCaskill, where the median household income is .

Occupations and Workforce

McCaskill is a blue-collar town, with 62.50% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, McCaskill is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in McCaskill who work in food service (20.83%), law enforcement and fire fighting (16.67%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

McCaskill’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of McCaskill spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.50 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Being a small town, McCaskill does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

McCaskill ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 2.04% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in McCaskill in 2022 was $12,148, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $48,592 for a family of four. McCaskill also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 59.42% of its population below the federal poverty line.

McCaskill is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McCaskill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McCaskill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in McCaskill include European, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

The most common language spoken in McCaskill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in McCaskill, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 47.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.4% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 87.0% of the neighborhoods in AR. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

The Neighbors

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 McCaskill are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 47.8% 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 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.2%), and 6.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 McCaskill, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.8%) 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 (10.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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