Heber Springs is a somewhat small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 7,201 people and four associated neighborhoods, Heber Springs is the 56th largest community in Arkansas.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Heber Springs is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Heber Springs is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Heber Springs who work in food service (11.99%), sales jobs (11.88%), and healthcare (7.63%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.99% 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. 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!) Heber Springs 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. Heber Springs has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Heber Springs than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Heber Springs may be for you. Being a small city, Heber Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, the citizens of Heber Springs rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.53% of adults 25 and older in Heber Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Heber Springs in 2022 was $30,995, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,980 for a family of four. However, Heber Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Heber Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Heber Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Heber Springs include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Heber Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
