McRae is a tiny city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 618 people and two associated neighborhoods, McRae is the 226th largest community in Arkansas.McRae is a blue-collar town, with 44.34% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, McRae is a city of professionals, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in McRae who work in healthcare (15.90%), maintenance occupations (10.70%), and sales jobs (6.73%). 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!) McRae 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. McRae has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in McRae than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, McRae may be for you. One downside of living in McRae, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.61 minutes every day commuting to work. McRae 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 McRae, just 7.98% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in McRae in 2022 was $22,351, which is lower middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $89,404 for a family of four. However, McRae contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. McRae is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call McRae home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McRae residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. McRae also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.97% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in McRae include English, German, Irish, French, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in McRae is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
