Gurdon is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,837 people and just one neighborhood, Gurdon is the 169th largest community in Arkansas.
When you are in Gurdon, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.31% of Gurdon’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gurdon is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gurdon who work in office and administrative support (17.49%), food service (15.48%), and farm management occupations (9.60%).
In addition, many people in Gurdon have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
Despite the fact that it is a small city, Gurdon has quite a few people who take public transportation – mostly the bus - for their daily commute to work. This helps to fill a real need in the city for affordable transportation.
The education level of Gurdon citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.43% of adults 25 and older in Gurdon have a college degree.
The per capita income in Gurdon in 2022 was $19,525, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,100 for a family of four.
Gurdon is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Gurdon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gurdon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Gurdon also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.61% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gurdon include English, German, Scottish, African, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Gurdon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.3% of the neighborhoods in 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 Gurdon are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.6% 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 54.3% 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, 32.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.2%), and 15.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.3%).
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 Gurdon, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (6.7%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (5.4%), and residents who report German roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (67.3%) 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 (16.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.