Bald Knob is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 2,539 people and just one neighborhood, Bald Knob is the 133rd largest community in Arkansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bald Knob is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.20% of the Bald Knob workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Bald Knob is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bald Knob who work in sales jobs (14.61%), food service (12.54%), and healthcare (7.20%).
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, Bald Knob has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bald Knob a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small city, Bald Knob doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Bald Knob are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.62% of adults in Bald Knob have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Bald Knob in 2022 was $23,651, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $94,604 for a family of four. However, Bald Knob contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bald Knob is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bald Knob home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bald Knob residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bald Knob include Irish, English, German, Polish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Bald Knob is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Bald Knob neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 40 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Bald Knob are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.2% 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, 37.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.6%), and 9.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Bald Knob, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (7.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.6%), and residents who report German roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (14.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.