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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport median real estate price is $22,395, which is less expensive than 99.8% of Oklahoma neighborhoods and 99.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport is currently $1,137, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 76.2% of Oklahoma neighborhoods.

Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport is a remote neighborhood (based on population density) located in Lawton, Oklahoma.

Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 22.3%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 89.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods dominated by new construction that is not yet occupied. But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

Of particular note, 11.2% of the people in the Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Occupations

There are more people living in the Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (56.3%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

Modes of Transportation

More people in Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport choose to walk to work each day (12.2%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.

Diversity

Did you know that the Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport neighborhood in Lawton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 52.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport neighborhood, 43.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.3%), and 11.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.4% of households. Some people also speak Vietnamese (8.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport neighborhood in Lawton, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.8%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report German roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.2%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (4.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 Lawton Fort Sill Regional Airport neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (68.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (12.2%) and 9.7% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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