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Dell, AR

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Overview


Dell is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 185 people and just one neighborhood, Dell is the 298th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Dell is a blue-collar town, with 46.74% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Dell is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dell who work in office and administrative support (20.65%), teaching (7.61%), and art, media, and design (6.52%).

Of important note, Dell is also a town of artists. Dell has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Dell’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Dell’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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

Being a small town, Dell does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Dell citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 35.40% of adults in Dell have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Dell in 2022 was $36,691, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,764 for a family of four. However, Dell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Dell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.

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

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 90.8% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

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.

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 Dell are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 24.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.4% 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, 40.4% 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 20.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 17.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Dell, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report German roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (90.8%) 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 (6.1%) . 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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