Shannon Hills is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 4,631 people and just one neighborhood, Shannon Hills is the 80th largest community in Arkansas. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Shannon Hills, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Shannon Hills, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Shannon Hills’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Shannon Hills does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $74,719.00.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Shannon Hills is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Shannon Hills is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shannon Hills who work in office and administrative support (25.83%), sales jobs (9.03%), and healthcare (7.28%).
Also of interest is that Shannon Hills has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.96% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Being a small city, Shannon Hills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Shannon Hills citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.47% of adults 25 and older in Shannon Hills have a college degree.
The per capita income in Shannon Hills in 2022 was $33,867, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,468 for a family of four. However, Shannon Hills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Shannon Hills is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Shannon Hills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shannon Hills residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Shannon Hills include English, Irish, German, African, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Shannon Hills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and French.
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.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 10.1% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Arkansas. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
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 Shannon Hills are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 53.7% of America'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, 33.5% 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 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (25.5%), and 14.0% 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 92.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.8%).
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 Shannon Hills, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report English roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (4.7%), along with some African ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.4%) 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 (6.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.