Sand Springs is a somewhat small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 17,686 people and six constituent neighborhoods, Sand Springs is the 25th largest community in Oklahoma.

Sand Springs is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Sand Springs is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sand Springs who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.98%), sales jobs (9.75%), and management occupations (7.57%).

Residents of Sand Springs by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 98.1% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented city. While Sand Springs may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

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

Sand Springs Information and Demographics

The population of Sand Springs overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 14.96%. Of adults 25 and older in Sand Springs, 17.51% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Sand Springs in 2000 was $18,193, which is wealthy relative to Oklahoma, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $72,772 for a family of four.

Sand Springs is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sand Springs home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Sand Springs is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Sand Springs include German, Irish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Sand Springs is English.