Lonoke is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 4,232 people and just one neighborhood, Lonoke is the 86th largest community in Arkansas.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Lonoke is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lonoke is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lonoke who work in office and administrative support (17.42%), management occupations (10.88%), and healthcare (7.76%).
The city 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, Lonoke has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lonoke a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Lonoke 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 citizens of Lonoke are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.68% of adults in Lonoke have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Lonoke in 2022 was $31,717, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,868 for a family of four. However, Lonoke contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lonoke is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lonoke home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lonoke residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Lonoke also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.23% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lonoke include English, Irish, German, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Lonoke 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.
Of particular note, 4.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
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 Lonoke are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.8% 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 51.2% of America'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, 33.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.3%), and 20.3% 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 91.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.1%).
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 Lonoke, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report German roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (17.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.