McCrory - Cotton Plant is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 3,740 people and just one neighborhood, McCrory - Cotton Plant is the 98th largest community in Arkansas.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, McCrory - Cotton Plant is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, McCrory - Cotton Plant is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in McCrory - Cotton Plant who work in office and administrative support (12.55%), management occupations (12.30%), and healthcare (10.09%).
The town 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, McCrory - Cotton Plant has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes McCrory - Cotton Plant a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, McCrory - Cotton Plant does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, McCrory - Cotton Plant is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.61% of adults 25 and older in McCrory - Cotton Plant have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in McCrory - Cotton Plant in 2022 was $28,417, 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 $113,668 for a family of four. However, McCrory - Cotton Plant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
McCrory - Cotton Plant is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McCrory - Cotton Plant home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McCrory - Cotton Plant residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in McCrory - Cotton Plant include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in McCrory - Cotton Plant is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 McCrory - Cotton Plant, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 11 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.9% of America.
If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.5% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Arkansas, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Arkansas.
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 McCrory - Cotton Plant are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.2% 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, 31.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.9%), and 16.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in McCrory - Cotton Plant, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (5.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.6%).
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.