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Smackover, AR

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Overview


Smackover is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,590 people and just one neighborhood, Smackover is the 174th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Smackover isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Smackover are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Smackover is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Smackover who work in office and administrative support (18.64%), teaching (11.51%), and sales jobs (7.68%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Smackover has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Smackover a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Smackover are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.13% of adults in Smackover having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Smackover in 2022 was $26,611, 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 $106,444 for a family of four. However, Smackover contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Smackover is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Smackover home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Smackover residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Smackover include English, Scots-Irish, Irish, German, and French.

The most common language spoken in Smackover is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 20.2% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

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 Smackover are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.1% 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, 34.0% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.2%), and 19.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.

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 Smackover, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.3%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (52.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (12.7%) and 5.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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