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Big Arm, MT

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Overview


Big Arm is a tiny town located in the state of Montana. With a population of 218 people and just one neighborhood, Big Arm is the 139th largest community in Montana.

Occupations and Workforce

Big Arm is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Big Arm is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Big Arm who work in healthcare (40.35%), sales jobs (38.60%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Big Arm is a major vacation destination. Much of the town’s population is seasonal: many people own second homes and only live there part-time, during the vacation season. The effect on the local economy is that many of the businesses are dependent on tourist dollars, and may operate only during the high season. As the vacation season ends, Big Arm’s population drops significantly, such that year-round residents will notice that the city is a much quieter place to live.

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Big Arm is worth considering.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Big Arm spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.45 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Big Arm is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Big Arm is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Big Arm has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Big Arm is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Big Arm is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.17% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Big Arm in 2022 was $23,311, which is low income relative to Montana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $93,244 for a family of four. However, Big Arm contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Big Arm also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 51.79% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Big Arm is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Big Arm home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Big Arm residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Big Arm include Italian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

The most common language spoken in Big Arm is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Russian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Big Arm, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 40.6%, which is higher than 97.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, 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 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.0% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 4.3% have Danish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Big Arm are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 24.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.8% 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, 41.7% 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 22.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.3%), and 17.2% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

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 91.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish and Spanish.

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 Big Arm, MT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (22.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.4%), and residents who report English roots (12.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (44.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.4%) 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 (9.8%) . 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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