It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Blackwell has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Blackwell has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Blackwell than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Blackwell may be for you.
Being a small city, Blackwell does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Blackwell is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.12% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Blackwell in 2018 was $24,163, which is lower middle income relative to Oklahoma, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,652 for a family of four. However, Blackwell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Blackwell is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Blackwell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blackwell residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Blackwell also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.04% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Blackwell include German, Irish, English, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Blackwell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
