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Does real estate here hold its value?
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Blue Mountain is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 87 people and just one neighborhood, Blue Mountain is the 337th largest community in Arkansas.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Blue Mountain, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.00% of Blue Mountain’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Blue Mountain is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Blue Mountain who work in healthcare suport services (37.50%), healthcare (7.50%), and management occupations (7.50%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Blue Mountain has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
Setting & Lifestyle
Overall, Blue Mountain’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Blue Mountain 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. Blue Mountain has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Blue Mountain than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Blue Mountain may be for you.
In Blue Mountain, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.39 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Blue Mountain does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The citizens of Blue Mountain have a very low rate of college education: just 6.76% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Blue Mountain in 2022 was $13,256, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $53,024 for a family of four. However, Blue Mountain contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Blue Mountain also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 65.36% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Blue Mountain is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Blue Mountain home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blue Mountain residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blue Mountain include English, German, Scottish, Irish, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Blue Mountain is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 Blue Mountain, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Modes of Transportation
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (27.2%) than in 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
Occupations
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Real Estate
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.9% of America.
The Neighbors
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 Blue Mountain are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.4% 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, 35.9% 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 33.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.7%), and 10.6% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.7%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Blue Mountain, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.1%), and residents who report Mexican roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.6%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (38.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (62.6%) 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 (27.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
