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Salina, OK

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Overview


Salina is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 1,092 people and just one neighborhood, Salina is the 228th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Salina, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.52% of Salina’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Salina is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Salina who work in sales jobs (10.05%), office and administrative support (8.13%), and healthcare suport services (7.18%).

Of important note, Salina is also a town of artists. Salina has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Salina’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The citizens of Salina have a very low rate of college education: just 9.26% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Salina in 2018 was $20,130, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,520 for a family of four. However, Salina contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Salina also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.73% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Salina is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages 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.

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, 30.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.2% 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 99.7% 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 Salina are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.4% 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, 36.1% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.7%), and 18.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.8% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (5.2%).

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 Salina, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (30.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report German roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.5%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 (37.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.1%) 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 (12.2%) . 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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