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Evening Shade, AR

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Overview


Evening Shade is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 429 people and just one neighborhood, Evening Shade is the 251st largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Evening Shade is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Evening Shade is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Evening Shade who work in management occupations (12.15%), teaching (11.22%), and office and administrative support (9.35%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.62% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Evening Shade is worth considering.

As is often the case in a small city, Evening Shade doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Evening Shade is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.89% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Evening Shade in 2022 was $19,978, 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 $79,912 for a family of four. However, Evening Shade contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Evening Shade is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Evening Shade home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Evening Shade residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Evening Shade include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Evening Shade is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

More people in choose to walk to work each day (10.8%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.

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 37 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.5% of America.

Diversity

Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.4% of the neighborhoods in 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 Evening Shade are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.1% 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, 36.3% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.6%), and 14.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Evening Shade, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (7.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (6.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (5.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (73.9%) 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 (13.4%) and 10.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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