Tumbling Shoals is a tiny town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 902 people and just one neighborhood, Tumbling Shoals is the 206th largest community in Arkansas.
When you are in Tumbling Shoals, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.25% of Tumbling Shoals’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Tumbling Shoals is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Tumbling Shoals who work in art, media, and design (16.60%), food service (13.58%), and maintenance occupations (11.70%).
Of important note, Tumbling Shoals is also a town of artists. Tumbling Shoals has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Tumbling Shoals’s character.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Tumbling Shoals 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. Tumbling Shoals has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tumbling Shoals than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tumbling Shoals may be for you.
Tumbling Shoals is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Tumbling Shoals citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.21% of adults 25 and older in Tumbling Shoals have a college degree.
The per capita income in Tumbling Shoals in 2022 was $24,037, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,148 for a family of four.
The people who call Tumbling Shoals home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tumbling Shoals residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Tumbling Shoals include English, Irish, German, French, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Tumbling Shoals is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Tumbling Shoals, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 56.8%, which is higher than 99.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.2% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.9% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.
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 Tumbling Shoals are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 34.8% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (28.6%), and 6.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.0%).
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 Tumbling Shoals, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scots-Irish 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.9%) 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 (14.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.