Horatio is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 904 people and just one neighborhood, Horatio is the 203rd largest community in Arkansas.
When you are in Horatio, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.17% of Horatio’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Horatio is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Horatio who work in management occupations (13.72%), office and administrative support (6.71%), and maintenance occupations (6.40%).
As is often the case in a small city, Horatio doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Horatio is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.47% of adults 25 and older in Horatio have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Horatio in 2022 was $22,243, 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 $88,972 for a family of four. However, Horatio contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Horatio is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Horatio home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Horatio residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Horatio also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.26% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Horatio include German, English, Scots-Irish, Irish, and Dutch.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Horatio's cultural character, accounting for 15.02% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Horatio 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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 50.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.0% of American neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 25 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 3.6% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Horatio are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.5% of U.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, 50.7% 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 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.9%), and 8.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 74.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Horatio, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (26.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report German roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.9%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (5.8%), among others. In addition, 11.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (38.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.2%) 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 (19.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.