About Oakes

Oakes is a very small town located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 2,758 people and just one neighborhood, Oakes is the 20th largest community in North Dakota.

Oakes is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Oakes is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oakes who work in sales jobs (12.29%), office and administrative support jobs (11.06%), and farm management (9.54%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Oakes work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their homes - 7.30% 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.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Oakes spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 13.57 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

As is often the case in a small town, Oakes doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Oakes Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Oakes who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 14.96%: 14.97% of the adults in Oakes have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Oakes in 2000 was $17,062, which is upper middle income relative to North Dakota, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $68,248 for a family of four.

The people who call Oakes home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Oakes is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Oakes include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, Swedish, and Finnish.

The most common language spoken in Oakes is English.