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Nicoma Park, OK

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Overview


Nicoma Park is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,295 people and just one neighborhood, Nicoma Park is the 166th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Nicoma Park isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Nicoma Park are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Nicoma Park is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nicoma Park who work in office and administrative support (12.62%), management occupations (10.09%), and business and financial occupations (8.32%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The citizens of Nicoma Park are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.12% of adults in Nicoma Park have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Nicoma Park in 2018 was $29,747, which is upper middle income relative to Oklahoma, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,988 for a family of four. However, Nicoma Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Nicoma Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

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, 8.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Nicoma Park are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 31.4% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.8%), and 14.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Nicoma Park, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (8.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.1%) 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 (7.4%) . 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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