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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 183 people and just one neighborhood, Dell is the 298th largest community in Arkansas.

Dell real estate is some of the most expensive in Arkansas, although Dell house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Dell is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 52.05% of the Dell workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Dell is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Dell who work in office and administrative support (26.03%), art, media, and design (8.22%), and teaching (6.85%).

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

Overall, Dell’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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, Dell has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Dell a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.69 minutes getting to work every day.

Dell is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Dell, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.44% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Dell 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.

Demographics

The overall education level of Dell is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 27.87% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Dell in 2022 was $40,823, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $163,292 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. Important ancestries of people in Dell include German, Irish, English, Greek, and European.

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

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.1% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.8% of all American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.8% of America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Dell are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 57.5% of America'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, 40.7% 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 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.8%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Dell, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.9%), and residents who report German roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (40.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (90.1%) 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 (7.6%) . 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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