Hackett is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 845 people and just one neighborhood, Hackett is the 212th largest community in Arkansas.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Hackett is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hackett is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hackett who work in sales jobs (11.81%), teaching (11.81%), and office and administrative support (11.61%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 14.52% 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!) Hackett 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. Hackett has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hackett than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hackett may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, Hackett doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Hackett is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.66% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hackett in 2022 was $25,427, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,708 for a family of four. However, Hackett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hackett is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hackett home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hackett residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Hackett include Irish, English, German, Dutch West Indian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Hackett is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Other Asian languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.2% 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.
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 Hackett are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.8% 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, 41.4% 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 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.1%), and 13.8% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).
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 Hackett, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.
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 (50.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (71.7%) 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 (21.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.