Madill is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 4,028 people and just one neighborhood, Madill is the 96th largest community in Oklahoma.
Madill is a blue-collar town, with 45.64% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Madill is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Madill who work in maintenance occupations (10.44%), office and administrative support (7.73%), and food service (7.73%).
The city 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, Madill has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Madill a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Madill does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Madill with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.17% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Madill in 2022 was $27,342, 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 $109,368 for a family of four. However, Madill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Madill is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Madill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Madill, accounting for 42.00% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Madill residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Madill include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and European.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Madill's cultural character, accounting for 18.99% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Madill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Madill, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.7% of American neighborhoods.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.4%) living in the neighborhood.
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, 5.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.6% 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 Madill are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.2% 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, 44.2% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.8%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 66.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (33.6%).
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 Madill, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (36.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.4%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (5.4%), among others. In addition, 18.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.7%) 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 (9.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.