Fort Towson - Sawyer is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,571 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Towson - Sawyer is the 158th largest community in Oklahoma.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Fort Towson - Sawyer is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fort Towson - Sawyer is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Towson - Sawyer who work in management occupations (15.58%), office and administrative support (11.46%), and sales jobs (7.74%).
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, Fort Towson - Sawyer has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fort Towson - Sawyer a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The citizens of Fort Towson - Sawyer are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.26% of adults in Fort Towson - Sawyer have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Fort Towson - Sawyer in 2022 was $28,311, 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 $113,244 for a family of four. However, Fort Towson - Sawyer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fort Towson - Sawyer is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Towson - Sawyer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Towson - Sawyer residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Fort Towson - Sawyer include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Fort Towson - Sawyer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Polish.
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.
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 12 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.7% of America.
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, 10.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% 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 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Fort Towson - Sawyer are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.5% 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 54.5% of America'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, 34.2% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.3%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.4% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Fort Towson - Sawyer, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (10.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report German roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.0%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.
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 (32.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (11.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.