Wilson - Keiser is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,837 people and just one neighborhood, Wilson - Keiser is the 163rd largest community in Arkansas.
Wilson - Keiser is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Wilson - Keiser is a town of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wilson - Keiser who work in management occupations (15.46%), farm management occupations (9.43%), and teaching (8.33%).
There are quite a few people in the armed forces living in Wilson - Keiser, and when you visit or drive around town, you will see military people in and out of uniform, shopping, enjoying life, and being part of the community.
Another important characteristic of Wilson - Keiser is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
Being a small town, Wilson - Keiser does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Wilson - Keiser is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.49% of adults 25 and older in Wilson - Keiser have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wilson - Keiser in 2022 was $28,489, which is upper middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $113,956 for a family of four. However, Wilson - Keiser contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wilson - Keiser is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wilson - Keiser home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wilson - Keiser residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wilson - Keiser include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Wilson - Keiser is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 9.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Furthermore, the neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 97.2% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Significantly, 1.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Wilson - Keiser are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.6% 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, 38.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 9.4% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.
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 Wilson - Keiser, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.
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 (40.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (12.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.