McRae’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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, McRae has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes McRae a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In McRae, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.26 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
In McRae, just 10.93% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in McRae in 2022 was $20,775, 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 $83,100 for a family of four. However, McRae contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
McRae is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call McRae home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McRae residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. McRae also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.54% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in McRae include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in McRae is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
