It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Mountainburg has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Mountainburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mountainburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mountainburg may be for you.
For a small city, Mountainburg has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Mountainburg exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
The percentage of adults in Mountainburg who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.33% of the adults in Mountainburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mountainburg in 2022 was $24,643, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,572 for a family of four. However, Mountainburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mountainburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mountainburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mountainburg include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Mountainburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
