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Porum, OK

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Overview


Porum is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 605 people and just one neighborhood, Porum is the 275th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Porum is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Porum is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Porum who work in office and administrative support (23.64%), healthcare suport services (15.15%), and sales jobs (8.48%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 20.61% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

One downside of living in Porum, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.56 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Porum doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

Porum ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.90% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Porum in 2018 was $12,642, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $50,568 for a family of four. Porum also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.10% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 19 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.9% of America.

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, 13.0% 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 Porum are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.4% 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, 34.4% 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.2%), and 16.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households.

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 Porum, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (13.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report English roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (36.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (71.7%) 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 (16.2%) . 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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