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Panama - Shady Point, OK

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Overview


Panama - Shady Point is a somewhat small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 5,621 people and just one neighborhood, Panama - Shady Point is the 72nd largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Panama - Shady Point is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Panama - Shady Point is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Panama - Shady Point who work in sales jobs (14.78%), office and administrative support (11.47%), and teaching (8.20%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of people in Panama - Shady Point with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.55% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Panama - Shady Point in 2018 was $24,119, 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 $96,476 for a family of four. However, Panama - Shady Point contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Panama - Shady Point is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.

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 32 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.4% 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, 11.4% 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 Panama - Shady Point are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 28.6% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.7%), and 17.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% 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 Panama - Shady Point, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.5%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report English roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (35.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.7%) 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 (9.2%) . 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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