Wickes - Grannis is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 2,123 people and just one neighborhood, Wickes - Grannis is the 151st largest community in Arkansas.
Wickes - Grannis is a blue-collar town, with 45.75% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wickes - Grannis is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wickes - Grannis who work in maintenance occupations (10.72%), teaching (8.78%), and sales jobs (7.39%).
The percentage of people in Wickes - Grannis with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.46% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wickes - Grannis in 2022 was $23,303, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,212 for a family of four. However, Wickes - Grannis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wickes - Grannis is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wickes - Grannis home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wickes - Grannis residents report their race to be White. Wickes - Grannis also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.06% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wickes - Grannis include Irish, German, English, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Wickes - Grannis is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
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 Wickes - Grannis, 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 4.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.8% 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 15 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (22.6%) than in 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Wickes - Grannis are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 45.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 40.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.0%), and 9.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (26.2%).
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 Wickes - Grannis, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report German roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.4%), among others. In addition, 13.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (26.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.8%) 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 (22.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.