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Davis, OK

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Overview


Davis is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,797 people and just one neighborhood, Davis is the 141st largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Davis, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.52% of Davis’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Davis is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Davis who work in sales jobs (11.86%), office and administrative support (9.59%), and management occupations (9.42%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Davis 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. Davis has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Davis than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Davis may be for you.

Davis 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.

Demographics

In Davis, just 12.16% 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 Davis in 2018 was $27,620, 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 $110,480 for a family of four. However, Davis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Davis, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 89.9% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

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, 12.4% of this neighborhood's residents 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 Davis are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.4% 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, 40.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.8%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Davis, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (12.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report German roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.9%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (7.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (89.9%) 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 (5.6%) . 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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