About Beggs

Beggs is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 4,154 people and just one neighborhood, Beggs is the 105th largest community in Oklahoma.

Beggs is a blue-collar town, with 37.3% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Beggs is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beggs who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.87%), sales jobs (11.86%), and teaching (4.82%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.27% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

One downside of living in Beggs, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.22 minutes every day commuting to work.

Beggs is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Beggs, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.47% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Beggs is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Beggs Information and Demographics

The citizens of Beggs are slightly less educated than the national average of 14.96% for the average city or town: 13.08% of adults in Beggs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Beggs in 2000 was $15,270, which is upper middle income relative to Oklahoma, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $61,080 for a family of four.

Beggs is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Beggs home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Beggs is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Beggs include Irish, English, and German.

The most common language spoken in Beggs is English.