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Imboden - Black Rock is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 4,077 people and just one neighborhood, Imboden - Black Rock is the 90th largest community in Arkansas.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Imboden - Black Rock, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.04% of Imboden - Black Rock’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Imboden - Black Rock is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Imboden - Black Rock who work in office and administrative support (12.39%), teaching (9.00%), and sales jobs (6.03%).
Setting & Lifestyle
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Imboden - Black Rock has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Imboden - Black Rock a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Imboden - Black Rock, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.18 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Imboden - Black Rock doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The rate of college-level education in Imboden - Black Rock is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.30% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Imboden - Black Rock in 2022 was $23,402, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,608 for a family of four. However, Imboden - Black Rock contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Imboden - Black Rock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Imboden - Black Rock residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Imboden - Black Rock include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Imboden - Black Rock is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Real Estate
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 24 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Imboden - Black Rock 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. With 14.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 39.5% 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 22.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.2%), and 17.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Imboden - Black Rock, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report German roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.2%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.4%) 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 (18.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
