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Watts, OK

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Overview


Watts is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 277 people and just one neighborhood, Watts is the 329th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Watts is a blue-collar town, with 42.11% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Watts is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Watts who work in sales jobs (17.11%), the sciences (10.53%), and food service (7.89%).

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Watts has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Watts has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Watts a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Watts is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Watts, the average commute to work is 36.02 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Watts is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Watts have a very low rate of college education: just 7.98% 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 Watts in 2018 was $14,704, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $58,816 for a family of four. Watts also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.13% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Watts is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Watts home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Watts residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Watts also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.34% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Watts include Irish, German, French, Scottish, and Swedish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.2%) living in the neighborhood.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 29 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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, 27.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.1% 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 97.9% 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 Watts are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 46.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.6% 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, 37.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.7%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

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 Watts, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (27.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.1%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.8%) 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 (6.0%) . 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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