One of the benefits of Dardanelle is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.62 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Dardanelle does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Dardanelle, just 11.50% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Dardanelle in 2022 was $23,365, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,460 for a family of four. However, Dardanelle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Dardanelle is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dardanelle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dardanelle residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Dardanelle also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.33% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dardanelle include Irish, English, German, Dutch, and Norwegian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Dardanelle's cultural character, accounting for 19.26% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Dardanelle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
