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Oakhurst, OK

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Overview


Oakhurst is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,262 people and just one neighborhood, Oakhurst is the 168th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Oakhurst is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Oakhurst is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oakhurst who work in office and administrative support (22.08%), sales jobs (11.67%), and management occupations (6.08%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Oakhurst has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Oakhurst a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Oakhurst are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.84% of adults in Oakhurst have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Oakhurst in 2018 was $33,003, which is wealthy relative to Oklahoma, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,012 for a family of four. However, Oakhurst contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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

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, 11.8% 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 Oakhurst are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 53.7% of America'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, 27.8% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.6%), and 20.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.0%).

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 Oakhurst, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (11.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 (54.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (7.8%) . 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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