Marked Tree is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 2,202 people and just one neighborhood, Marked Tree is the 142nd largest community in Arkansas.
Unlike some cities, Marked Tree isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Marked Tree are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Marked Tree is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marked Tree who work in management occupations (11.11%), teaching (9.78%), and sales jobs (8.44%).
As is often the case in a small city, Marked Tree doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Marked Tree rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.63% of adults 25 and older in Marked Tree have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Marked Tree in 2022 was $21,624, which is lower middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $86,496 for a family of four. However, Marked Tree contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Marked Tree is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Marked Tree home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marked Tree residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Marked Tree include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Marked Tree is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Marked Tree neighborhood.
In addition, of note, 57.3% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
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. 10.9% 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 96.5% of all neighborhoods in America.
More people in choose to walk to work each day (11.4%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American 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 Marked Tree are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 57.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.4% 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, 32.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 15.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.5%).
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 Marked Tree, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.6%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (4.9%), and residents who report Mexican roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (41.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (10.9%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (75.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (11.4%) and 10.9% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.