Atoka is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 3,200 people and just one neighborhood, Atoka is the 122nd largest community in Oklahoma.
Unlike some cities, Atoka isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Atoka are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Atoka is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Atoka who work in office and administrative support (12.90%), sales jobs (12.26%), and management occupations (10.15%).
Of important note, Atoka is also a city of artists. Atoka has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Atoka’s character.
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Atoka is worth considering.
Being a small city, Atoka does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Atoka, just 12.42% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Atoka in 2018 was $24,995, 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 $99,980 for a family of four. However, Atoka contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Atoka is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Atoka home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Atoka residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Atoka include Irish, German, English, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Atoka is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Atoka, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 9.1% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 neighborhood in Atoka are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.5% 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 neighborhood, 29.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.1%), and 19.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.1%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Atoka, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.4%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (11.0%), and residents who report German roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.3%), among others.
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 neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.