About Nichols Hills

Nichols Hills is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 4,010 people and just one neighborhood, Nichols Hills is the 110th largest community in Oklahoma.

Nichols Hills is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 94.59% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Nichols Hills is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nichols Hills who work in management occupations (20.80%), healthcare (12.92%), and sales jobs (12.71%).

For a small city, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in Nichols Hills. This is not typical for most smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to Nichols Hills.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Nichols Hills is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." While both of these categories describe educated professionals, urban sophisticates are quite a different demographic. Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

One of the benefits of Nichols Hills is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.19 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Nichols Hills is a small city, 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 Nichols Hills, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.77% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Being a small city, Nichols Hills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Nichols Hills Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Nichols Hills is a pretty powerful place. 68.73% of the adults in Nichols Hills have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Nichols Hills in 2000 was $73,661, which is wealthy relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $294,644 for a family of four. However, Nichols Hills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Nichols Hills home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Nichols Hills is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Nichols Hills include German, English, Irish, Scotch-Irish, Scottish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Nichols Hills is English.