Hazen is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,432 people and just one neighborhood, Hazen is the 181st largest community in Arkansas.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Hazen is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hazen is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hazen who work in sales jobs (18.51%), management occupations (12.78%), and office and administrative support (9.26%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Hazen has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hazen a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Hazen does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Hazen are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.62% of adults in Hazen having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hazen in 2022 was $24,340, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,360 for a family of four. However, Hazen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hazen is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hazen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hazen residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hazen include Irish, Dutch, German, English, and British.
The most common language spoken in Hazen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 12 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 7.7% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Hazen are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.6% 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, 29.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.0%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% 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 Hazen, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report English roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (7.7%), along with some Czechoslovakian 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 (34.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.4%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.