Centerville / Rocky Mound median real estate price is $105,970, which is less expensive than 84.9% of Arkansas neighborhoods and 94.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Centerville / Rocky Mound is currently $1,281, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 59.1% of Arkansas neighborhoods.
Centerville / Rocky Mound is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Hope, Arkansas.
Centerville / Rocky Mound real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Centerville / Rocky Mound neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Centerville / Rocky Mound has a 10.0% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 61.6% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
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 Hope, the Centerville / Rocky Mound neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 92.0% of commuters who live in the Centerville / Rocky Mound neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The Centerville / Rocky Mound neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (64.5%) than found in 97.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
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 Centerville / Rocky Mound neighborhood in Hope are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 64.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the Centerville / Rocky Mound neighborhood, 40.3% 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 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.0%), and 6.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the Centerville / Rocky Mound neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.2%).
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 Centerville / Rocky Mound neighborhood in Hope, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.9%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.4%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 Centerville / Rocky Mound neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (92.0%) 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 (5.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.