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Shidler, OK

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Overview


Shidler is a tiny city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 327 people and just one neighborhood, Shidler is the 311th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Shidler is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Shidler is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Shidler who work in office and administrative support (15.87%), business and financial occupations (12.70%), and teaching (8.47%).

Also of interest is that Shidler has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Shidler with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.78% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Shidler in 2018 was $30,157, which is upper middle income relative to Oklahoma, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,628 for a family of four. However, Shidler contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Shidler is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry and 5.3% 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 Shidler are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 52.9% of America'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, 34.4% 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 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.8%), and 14.7% 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 97.0% of households.

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 Shidler, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Brazilian (11.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.7%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

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 (9.7%) . 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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