Fox is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 92 people and just one neighborhood, Fox is the 348th largest community in Oklahoma.
Fox is a blue-collar town, with 43.75% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Fox is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fox who work in office and administrative support (18.75%), maintenance occupations (18.75%), and community and social services (18.75%).
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Fox 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. Fox has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fox than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fox may be for you.
One downside of living in Fox, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.81 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Fox doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Fox with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.00% of adults in Fox have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fox in 2022 was $28,474, 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 $113,896 for a family of four.
The people who call Fox home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fox residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Fox include Dutch West Indian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.
The most common language spoken in Fox is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (25.8%) than in 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 96.4% of the neighborhoods in 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, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Fox 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 16.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.3% 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, 38.6% 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 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.8%), and 11.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.1%).
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 Fox, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report English roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (3.2%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (26.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (67.2%) 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 (25.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.