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Southside, AR

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Overview


Southside is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 4,263 people and just one neighborhood, Southside is the 85th largest community in Arkansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Southside isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Southside are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Southside is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Southside who work in office and administrative support (12.26%), food service (8.26%), and sales jobs (6.60%).

Also of interest is that Southside has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Southside 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. Southside has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Southside than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Southside may be for you.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Southside spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.89 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Southside 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.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Southside with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.91% of adults in Southside have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Southside in 2022 was $19,274, which is low income relative to Arkansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,096 for a family of four. However, Southside contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Southside is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Southside home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Southside residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Southside include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Southside is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 41.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.8% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Southside are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.1% 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 neighborhood, 38.3% 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 (17.4%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Southside, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.1%), and residents who report German roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (13.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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