Piggott is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 3,545 people and just one neighborhood, Piggott is the 103rd largest community in Arkansas.
Unlike some cities, Piggott isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Piggott are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Piggott is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Piggott who work in management occupations (11.95%), food service (10.33%), and office and administrative support (9.39%).
As is often the case in a small city, Piggott doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Piggott is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.04% of adults 25 and older in Piggott have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Piggott in 2022 was $24,537, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,148 for a family of four. However, Piggott contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Piggott home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Piggott residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Piggott include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Piggott is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Persian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.
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 Piggott are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 34.1% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.2%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.
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 neighborhood in Piggott, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.2%) 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 (16.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.