Strawberry - Lynn is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,852 people and just one neighborhood, Strawberry - Lynn is the 165th largest community in Arkansas.
Strawberry - Lynn is a blue-collar town, with 42.35% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Strawberry - Lynn is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Strawberry - Lynn who work in management occupations (10.97%), sales jobs (10.36%), and farm management occupations (9.89%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Strawberry - Lynn work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.47% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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!) Strawberry - Lynn 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. Strawberry - Lynn has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Strawberry - Lynn than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Strawberry - Lynn may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Strawberry - Lynn doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Strawberry - Lynn are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.82% of adults in Strawberry - Lynn have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Strawberry - Lynn in 2022 was $27,207, 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 $108,828 for a family of four. However, Strawberry - Lynn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Strawberry - Lynn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Strawberry - Lynn residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Strawberry - Lynn include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Belgian.
The most common language spoken in Strawberry - Lynn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and West Germanic languages.
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 Strawberry - Lynn, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 95.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry.
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 Strawberry - Lynn are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.5% of U.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, 32.5% 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 28.1% 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 9.9% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households.
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 Strawberry - Lynn, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.0%) 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.