Walnut Ridge is a somewhat small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 5,532 people and just one neighborhood, Walnut Ridge is the 71st largest community in Arkansas.
Walnut Ridge is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Walnut Ridge is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Walnut Ridge who work in office and administrative support (11.76%), sales jobs (10.54%), and teaching (7.46%).
Walnut Ridge 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.
The citizens of Walnut Ridge are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.36% of adults in Walnut Ridge having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Walnut Ridge in 2022 was $26,512, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,048 for a family of four. However, Walnut Ridge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Walnut Ridge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Walnut Ridge residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Walnut Ridge include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Walnut Ridge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Our research reveals that 89.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Walnut Ridge are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.6% 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, 34.9% 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 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% 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 Walnut Ridge, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report German roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (89.0%) 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 (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.