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Perryville, AR

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Overview


Perryville is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,386 people and just one neighborhood, Perryville is the 185th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Perryville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Perryville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Perryville is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Perryville who work in management occupations (10.59%), sales jobs (9.57%), and teaching (9.57%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.02% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Perryville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.16% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Perryville in 2022 was $25,388, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,552 for a family of four. However, Perryville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Perryville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Perryville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Perryville include Irish, German, English, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Perryville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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

Occupations

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 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 22 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.3% of America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Perryville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.3% 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, 36.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.9%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Perryville, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report German roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (88.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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