Ozark is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 3,601 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ozark is the 107th largest community in Arkansas.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ozark is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.85% of the Ozark workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ozark is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ozark who work in community and social services (11.31%), healthcare suport services (10.54%), and office and administrative support (6.95%). 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, Ozark has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ozark a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.15 minutes getting to work every day. Being a small city, Ozark does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in Ozark with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.44% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Ozark in 2022 was $24,470, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,880 for a family of four. However, Ozark contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Ozark home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ozark residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Ozark include Irish, German, English, Scots-Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Ozark is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
