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Kiefer - Mounds, OK

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Overview


Kiefer - Mounds is a somewhat small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 5,880 people and just one neighborhood, Kiefer - Mounds is the 69th largest community in Oklahoma. Kiefer - Mounds has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Kiefer - Mounds, where the median household income is $70,625.00.

Kiefer - Mounds real estate is some of the most expensive in Oklahoma, although Kiefer - Mounds house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Kiefer - Mounds isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Kiefer - Mounds are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Kiefer - Mounds is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kiefer - Mounds who work in office and administrative support (12.33%), sales jobs (10.51%), and management occupations (10.10%).

A relatively large number of people in Kiefer - Mounds telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.13% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The education level of Kiefer - Mounds citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.80% of adults 25 and older in Kiefer - Mounds have a college degree.

The per capita income in Kiefer - Mounds in 2018 was $30,758, which is upper middle income relative to Oklahoma, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,032 for a family of four. However, Kiefer - Mounds contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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, 10.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

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 Kiefer - Mounds are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.6% 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, 35.4% 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 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.6%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.6%).

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 Kiefer - Mounds, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.3%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report German roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 (45.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (8.8%) . 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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