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Guy, AR

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Overview


Guy is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 744 people and just one neighborhood, Guy is the 217th largest community in Arkansas. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Guy, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Guy, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Guy’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Guy does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $60,521.00.

Guy real estate is some of the most expensive in Arkansas, although Guy house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Guy is a blue-collar town, with 35.50% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Guy is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Guy who work in office and administrative support (19.91%), sales jobs (12.55%), and teaching (8.23%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Guy has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Guy a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Demographics

The education level of Guy citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.20% of adults 25 and older in Guy have a college degree.

The per capita income in Guy in 2022 was $32,502, which is wealthy relative to Arkansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $130,008 for a family of four. However, Guy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Guy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.

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.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.0% of all American neighborhoods.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 10.6% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Arkansas. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

The Neighbors

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 Guy are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.7% 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, 34.7% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.9%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.

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 Guy, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.4%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (31.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (91.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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