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Tupelo, OK

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Overview


Tupelo is a tiny city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 326 people and just one neighborhood, Tupelo is the 312th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Tupelo, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.32% of Tupelo’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Tupelo is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tupelo who work in office and administrative support (10.26%), food service (9.40%), and healthcare suport services (8.55%).

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

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

Demographics

The population of Tupelo has a very low overall level of education: only 6.17% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Tupelo in 2018 was $18,308, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,232 for a family of four. However, Tupelo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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 7 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.9% of America.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 2.1% have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% 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 Tupelo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.1% 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, 33.7% 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 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.9%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.5% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (5.9%).

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 Tupelo, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.9%), and residents who report English roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (7.1%), 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 (41.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.0%) 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 (8.7%) . 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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