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Rush Springs, OK

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Overview


Rush Springs is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 1,007 people and just one neighborhood, Rush Springs is the 236th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Rush Springs, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.77% of Rush Springs’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Rush Springs is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rush Springs who work in management occupations (14.63%), sales jobs (13.10%), and teaching (8.73%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

In Rush Springs, just 12.04% 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 Rush Springs in 2018 was $20,855, which is lower middle income relative to Oklahoma, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $83,420 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Rush Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Pacific Island languages and Italian.

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

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 13 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 1.2% have Finnish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Rush Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.9% 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, 37.4% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Rush Springs, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report English roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.8%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (85.6%) 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 (11.3%) . 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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