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Pearcy, AR

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Overview


Pearcy is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 306 people and just one neighborhood, Pearcy is the 272nd largest community in Arkansas.

Pearcy real estate is some of the most expensive in Arkansas, although Pearcy house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Pearcy is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 90.28% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Pearcy is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pearcy who work in food service (40.97%), personal care services (22.92%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (18.06%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Pearcy is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Pearcy 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. Pearcy has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pearcy than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pearcy may be for you.

Pearcy is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Pearcy is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Pearcy has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

As is often the case in a small town, Pearcy doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Pearcy who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.81% of the adults in Pearcy have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pearcy in 2022 was $21,866, 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 $87,464 for a family of four.

The people who call Pearcy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pearcy residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Pearcy include English, German, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Pearcy is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Langs. of India.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Pearcy, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

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.

The Neighbors

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 Pearcy are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 32.1% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.6%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Pearcy, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.9%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (39.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.9%) 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 (6.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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