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Quinton, OK

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Overview


Quinton is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 854 people and just one neighborhood, Quinton is the 247th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Quinton is a blue-collar town, with 35.50% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Quinton is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Quinton who work in management occupations (15.65%), healthcare (9.54%), and sales jobs (8.78%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In Quinton, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.47 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The population of Quinton has a very low overall level of education: only 6.61% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Quinton in 2018 was $15,195, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $60,780 for a family of four. However, Quinton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Quinton also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.46% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Quinton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American 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 Quinton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 32.2%, which is higher than 95.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 4.9% 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 Quinton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 40.2% 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 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.5%), and 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.1%).

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 Quinton, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.6%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (4.9%), along with some British ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 (32.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (9.8%) . 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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