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Sasakwa, OK

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Overview


Sasakwa is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 77 people and just one neighborhood, Sasakwa is the 349th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Sasakwa isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sasakwa are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sasakwa is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Sasakwa who work in office and administrative support (15.00%), sales jobs (15.00%), and art, media, and design (15.00%).

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

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

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

Demographics

The citizens of Sasakwa have a very low rate of college education: just 6.52% 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 Sasakwa in 2018 was $26,891, which is middle income relative to Oklahoma, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $107,564 for a family of four. However, Sasakwa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sasakwa is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sasakwa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sasakwa residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Sasakwa include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

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 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.4% of 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 34.4%, which is higher than 96.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Furthermore, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.2% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

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, 25.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.8% 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 98.9% 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 Sasakwa are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 42.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.8% 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, 39.0% 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 (20.2%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).

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 Sasakwa, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (25.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report English roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.6%), along with some German ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 (34.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.5%) 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 (12.1%) . 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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