Danville - Ola is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 4,018 people and just one neighborhood, Danville - Ola is the 92nd largest community in Arkansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Danville - Ola is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.38% of the Danville - Ola workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Danville - Ola is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Danville - Ola who work in maintenance occupations (11.58%), food service (7.86%), and sales jobs (6.24%).
The town 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, Danville - Ola has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Danville - Ola a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Danville - Ola is a small town, 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 Danville - Ola with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.61% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Danville - Ola in 2022 was $21,976, 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 $87,904 for a family of four. However, Danville - Ola contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Danville - Ola is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Danville - Ola home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Danville - Ola residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Danville - Ola also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.18% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Danville - Ola include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Danville - Ola is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.5% of American neighborhoods.
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 94.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry.
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 Danville - Ola are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.0% 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, 42.3% 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 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.5%), and 6.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 74.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (25.0%).
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 Danville - Ola, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (14.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.4%), among others. In addition, 12.7% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (16.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.