Bald Knob is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 2,539 people and just one neighborhood, Bald Knob is the 133rd largest community in Arkansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bald Knob is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.20% of the Bald Knob workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Bald Knob is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bald Knob who work in sales jobs (14.61%), food service (12.54%), and healthcare (7.20%).
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Bald Knob is worth considering.
Bald Knob 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 percentage of adults in Bald Knob with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.62% of adults in Bald Knob have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bald Knob in 2022 was $23,651, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $94,604 for a family of four. However, Bald Knob contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bald Knob is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bald Knob home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bald Knob residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bald Knob include Irish, English, German, Polish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Bald Knob is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 23.8% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 91.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Bald Knob are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.2% 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, 37.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.6%), and 9.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Bald Knob, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (7.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.6%), and residents who report German roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (49.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (14.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.