Holly Grove is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 443 people and just one neighborhood, Holly Grove is the 247th largest community in Arkansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Holly Grove is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 52.35% of the Holly Grove workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Holly Grove is a city of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Holly Grove who work in sales jobs (18.24%), office and administrative support (12.94%), and farm management occupations (8.24%).
Another important characteristic of Holly Grove is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Holly Grove 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. Holly Grove has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Holly Grove than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Holly Grove may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, Holly Grove doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Holly Grove are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.12% of adults in Holly Grove have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Holly Grove in 2022 was $24,560, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,240 for a family of four. However, Holly Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Holly Grove also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.53% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Holly Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Holly Grove residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Holly Grove include Polish, English, African, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Holly Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
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 Holly Grove, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 98.2% 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.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 35.7% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
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 5.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Holly Grove is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in AR, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.1% of the neighborhoods in Arkansas. If you are considering retiring to Arkansas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Puerto Rican and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry and 2.8% have French Canadian 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 Holly Grove are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.0% 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, 30.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 24.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.5%), and 19.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% 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 Holly Grove, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Puerto Rican (9.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.3%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (4.2%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.8%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.