Moyers is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 60 people and just one neighborhood, Moyers is the 355th largest community in Oklahoma.
Moyers is a blue-collar town, with 68.00% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Moyers is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Moyers who work in sales jobs (24.00%), management occupations (8.00%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 17.39% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Overall, Moyers’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Moyers 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. Moyers has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Moyers than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Moyers may be for you.
One downside of living in Moyers is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Moyers, the average commute to work is 39.47 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Moyers is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Moyers are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.10% of adults in Moyers have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Moyers in 2022 was $22,050, which is lower middle income relative to Oklahoma, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $88,200 for a family of four. However, Moyers contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Moyers also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.94% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Moyers is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Moyers home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moyers residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Moyers include English, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Moyers is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.
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 11 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.8% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
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, 17.5% 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 95.6% 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 Moyers are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.7% of U.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, 29.4% 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.0%), and 18.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households.
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 Moyers, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (17.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.
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 (40.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.1%) 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%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.