St. Charles is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 194 people and just one neighborhood, St. Charles is the 296th largest community in Arkansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, St. Charles is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 62.79% of the St. Charles workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, St. Charles is a town of construction workers and builders, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in St. Charles who work in farm management occupations (15.12%), art, media, and design (8.14%), and business and financial occupations (6.98%).
In addition, many people in St. Charles have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
Of important note, St. Charles is also a town of artists. St. Charles has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape St. Charles’s character.
A relatively large number of people in St. Charles telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.47% 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 town 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!) St. Charles 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. St. Charles has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in St. Charles than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, St. Charles may be for you.
St. Charles is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in St. Charles is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.26% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in St. Charles in 2022 was $24,078, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,312 for a family of four. However, St. Charles contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
St. Charles is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call St. Charles home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Charles residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. St. Charles also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.00% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in St. Charles include Irish, German, Finnish, French Canadian, and French.
The most common language spoken in St. Charles is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 35.6%, which is higher than 96.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.5% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.9% of all neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 1.3% have Finnish ancestry.
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 St. Charles are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.5% 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, 34.7% 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 34.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.0%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 St. Charles, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report German roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (38.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (11.5%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (86.1%) 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 (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.