Cherry Valley - Vanndale is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 3,101 people and just one neighborhood, Cherry Valley - Vanndale is the 117th largest community in Arkansas.
When you are in Cherry Valley - Vanndale, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.11% of Cherry Valley - Vanndale’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cherry Valley - Vanndale is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Cherry Valley - Vanndale who work in office and administrative support (12.58%), healthcare (7.95%), and sales jobs (7.87%).
Residents will find that the town 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, Cherry Valley - Vanndale is worth considering.
One downside of living in Cherry Valley - Vanndale, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.97 minutes every day commuting to work.
Cherry Valley - Vanndale 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 percentage of people in Cherry Valley - Vanndale with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.59% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cherry Valley - Vanndale in 2022 was $31,450, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,800 for a family of four. However, Cherry Valley - Vanndale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cherry Valley - Vanndale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cherry Valley - Vanndale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cherry Valley - Vanndale include German, English, Irish, Scandinavian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Cherry Valley - Vanndale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Chinese.
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 Cherry Valley - Vanndale, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. 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. 13.3% 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 97.9% of all neighborhoods in America.
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 96.5% 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 94.6% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
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 Cherry Valley - Vanndale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.2% 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, 40.5% 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 20.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.9%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.3%).
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 Cherry Valley - Vanndale, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (10.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (1.2%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 (33.0% 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 (13.3%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (83.6%) 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 (13.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.