Calico Rock is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,945 people and just one neighborhood, Calico Rock is the 207th largest community in Arkansas.
Unlike some cities, Calico Rock isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Calico Rock are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Calico Rock is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Calico Rock who work in food service (23.57%), teaching (20.88%), and healthcare (7.74%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Calico Rock has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Calico Rock a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Calico Rock is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Calico Rock with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.37% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Calico Rock in 2022 was $11,460, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $45,840 for a family of four.
Calico Rock is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Calico Rock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Calico Rock residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Calico Rock include English, German, Irish, Other Arab, and European.
The most common language spoken in Calico Rock is English. Other important languages spoken here include Arabic and Italian.
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.
If you are planning to retire in Arkansas, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Arkansas, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 99.5% of neighborhoods in AR. If a Arkansas retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
In addition, an interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.2% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.5% 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 Calico Rock are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.6% 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, 36.2% 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households.
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 Calico Rock, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.7%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 (40.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.6%) 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 (9.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.