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Wewoka, OK

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Overview


Wewoka is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 3,064 people and just one neighborhood, Wewoka is the 124th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Wewoka is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wewoka is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wewoka who work in sales jobs (10.14%), healthcare suport services (10.14%), and maintenance occupations (8.74%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Wewoka is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.65% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Wewoka in 2018 was $18,702, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,808 for a family of four.

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

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

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.

People

Of particular note, 2.4% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

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, 24.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.6% 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 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 Wewoka are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.9% of U.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, 27.8% 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.9%), and 18.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.

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 Wewoka, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (24.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report German roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.2%) 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 (10.2%) and 5.6% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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