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Crescent, OK

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Overview


Crescent is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 1,349 people and just one neighborhood, Crescent is the 212th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Crescent isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Crescent are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Crescent is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Crescent who work in office and administrative support (14.63%), sales jobs (12.84%), and teaching (9.25%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In Crescent, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.14 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Crescent with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.05% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Crescent in 2018 was $24,549, which is middle income relative to Oklahoma, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,196 for a family of four. However, Crescent contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Crescent is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Crescent home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Crescent residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Crescent include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and European.

The most common language spoken in Crescent is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.

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.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.9% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 3.8% have Native American ancestry.

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 neighborhood in Crescent are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 31.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.1%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Crescent, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report English roots (11.9%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (3.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (25.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (84.7%) 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 (8.9%) . 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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