Redfield is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,490 people and just one neighborhood, Redfield is the 178th largest community in Arkansas.
Redfield is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Redfield is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Redfield who work in office and administrative support (13.94%), management occupations (13.94%), and healthcare (8.18%).
Also of interest is that Redfield has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Redfield telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.81% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Redfield 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. Redfield has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Redfield than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Redfield may be for you.
In Redfield, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.83 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Redfield 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.
In terms of college education, Redfield is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.69% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Redfield in 2022 was $29,283, which is upper middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,132 for a family of four. However, Redfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Redfield is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Redfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Redfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Redfield include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Redfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Redfield, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 45.3% 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.
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 Redfield are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.7% 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, 36.6% 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 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Redfield, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report German roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (2.1%), along with some Scots-Irish 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (84.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.