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%). 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!) Ozark 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. Ozark has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ozark than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ozark may be for you. 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. Ozark is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The rate of college-level education in Ozark is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.44% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an 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.
