Foreman is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 951 people and just one neighborhood, Foreman is the 199th largest community in Arkansas.
When you are in Foreman, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 50.70% of Foreman’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Foreman is a city of construction workers and builders, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Foreman who work in business and financial occupations (11.83%), healthcare (8.17%), and food service (5.92%).
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Foreman 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. Foreman has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Foreman than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Foreman may be for you.
Foreman is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Foreman has a very low overall level of education: only 8.10% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Foreman in 2022 was $20,837, 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 $83,348 for a family of four. However, Foreman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Foreman is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Foreman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Foreman residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Foreman also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.42% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Foreman include English, Irish, German, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Foreman 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.
Our research reveals that 94.6% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Foreman neighborhood.
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 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.6% of America.
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 Foreman are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.3% 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 57.7% 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, 34.8% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.4%), and 14.9% 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 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.7%).
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 Foreman, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.4%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (94.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.