Everton is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 103 people and just one neighborhood, Everton is the 332nd largest community in Arkansas. Everton has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Everton, where the median household income is .
Everton real estate is some of the most expensive in Arkansas, although Everton house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Everton is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.00% of the Everton workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Everton is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Everton who work in office and administrative support (16.00%), sales jobs (16.00%), and personal care services (12.00%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.64% 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.
Everton’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!) Everton 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. Everton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Everton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Everton may be for you.
In Everton, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.26 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Everton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Everton has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.66% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Everton in 2022 was $21,526, 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 $86,104 for a family of four.
The people who call Everton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Everton residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Everton include English, German, Irish, Polish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Everton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
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.
According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is among the best neighborhoods for families in Arkansas. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 98.4% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Arkansas. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the neighborhood.
In addition, there is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.7%) living in the neighborhood.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.7% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.1% of all American neighborhoods.
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 Everton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.9% 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 68.4% of America'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, 32.1% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.8%), and 18.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
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 Everton, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.0%), along with some Russian ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.
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 (50.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.7%) 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 (5.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.