Weiner - Fisher is a very small town located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,358 people and just one neighborhood, Weiner - Fisher is the 183rd largest community in Arkansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Weiner - Fisher is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.41% of the Weiner - Fisher workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Weiner - Fisher is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Weiner - Fisher who work in office and administrative support (13.79%), sales jobs (11.33%), and farm management occupations (10.34%).
Being a small town, Weiner - Fisher does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Weiner - Fisher with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.82% of adults in Weiner - Fisher have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Weiner - Fisher in 2022 was $25,125, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,500 for a family of four. However, Weiner - Fisher contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Weiner - Fisher is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Weiner - Fisher home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Weiner - Fisher residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Weiner - Fisher include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Weiner - Fisher is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Weiner - Fisher, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Weiner - Fisher neighborhood.
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 6 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.0% of America.
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 Weiner - Fisher are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.6% 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, 40.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 20.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (15.1%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Weiner - Fisher, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.6%), and residents who report English roots (6.0%).
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.2%) 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 (9.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.