Tuckerman - Swifton is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 3,126 people and just one neighborhood, Tuckerman - Swifton is the 116th largest community in Arkansas.
Unlike some towns, Tuckerman - Swifton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Tuckerman - Swifton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Tuckerman - Swifton is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tuckerman - Swifton who work in sales jobs (10.99%), office and administrative support (10.31%), and maintenance occupations (6.09%).
Also of interest is that Tuckerman - Swifton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Being a small town, Tuckerman - Swifton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Tuckerman - Swifton with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.98% of adults in Tuckerman - Swifton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Tuckerman - Swifton in 2022 was $25,789, 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 $103,156 for a family of four. However, Tuckerman - Swifton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Tuckerman - Swifton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tuckerman - Swifton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tuckerman - Swifton include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Tuckerman - Swifton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Tuckerman - Swifton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 4.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 18 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Tuckerman - Swifton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.8% 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, 29.7% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.4%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Tuckerman - Swifton, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report German roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.5%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.8%) 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 (12.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.