Leachville is a very small city located in the state of Arkansas. With a population of 1,924 people and just one neighborhood, Leachville is the 155th largest community in Arkansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Leachville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 55.01% of the Leachville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Leachville is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Leachville who work in farm management occupations (10.98%), office and administrative support (9.41%), and maintenance occupations (9.17%).
Another important characteristic of Leachville is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
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!) Leachville 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. Leachville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Leachville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Leachville may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, Leachville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Leachville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.14% of adults in Leachville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Leachville in 2022 was $23,053, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $92,212 for a family of four. However, Leachville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Leachville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.78% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Leachville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Leachville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leachville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Leachville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.01% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Leachville include Irish, English, German, Dutch, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Leachville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Furthermore, it used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 7.7% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 22 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Leachville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.3% 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, 54.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 21.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (11.0%), and 7.7% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.4%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Leachville, AR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report English roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.1%) 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 (16.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.