Eureka Springs is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 2,189 people and three associated neighborhoods, Eureka Springs is the 147th largest community in Arkansas. Eureka Springs real estate is some of the most expensive in Arkansas, although Eureka Springs house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.Eureka Springs is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 86.82% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Eureka Springs is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Eureka Springs who work in food service (16.38%), sales jobs (13.92%), and management occupations (12.56%). Also of interest is that Eureka Springs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 17.99% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. The city 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, Eureka Springs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Eureka Springs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One of the benefits of Eureka Springs is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.91 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Eureka Springs 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.In terms of college education, Eureka Springs is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.62% of adults in Eureka Springs have a college degree. The per capita income in Eureka Springs in 2022 was $31,355, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,420 for a family of four. However, Eureka Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Eureka Springs is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Eureka Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eureka Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Eureka Springs include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Eureka Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Spanish.
