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Stroud, OK

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Overview


Stroud is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,809 people and just one neighborhood, Stroud is the 150th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Stroud is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Stroud is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stroud who work in office and administrative support (16.10%), sales jobs (11.95%), and management occupations (11.43%).

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

Being a small city, Stroud does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Stroud are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.04% of adults in Stroud have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Stroud in 2018 was $27,993, which is upper middle income relative to Oklahoma, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,972 for a family of four. However, Stroud contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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

Occupations

The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 97.2% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

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 93.3% of the neighborhoods in 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, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents 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 Stroud are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.5% 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, 30.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.6%), and 18.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Stroud, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report English roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (6.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (41.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (12.3%) . 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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