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Waurika, OK

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Overview


Waurika is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 1,838 people and just one neighborhood, Waurika is the 184th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Waurika isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Waurika are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Waurika is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Waurika who work in office and administrative support (15.14%), maintenance occupations (12.29%), and management occupations (8.55%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Waurika has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Waurika a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Waurika rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.11% of adults 25 and older in Waurika have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Waurika in 2022 was $22,304, 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 $89,216 for a family of four. However, Waurika contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Waurika is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Waurika home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Waurika residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Waurika also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.56% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Waurika include Irish, German, English, Swedish, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Waurika is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Waurika, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Waurika neighborhood.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 10 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Waurika are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.0% 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, 30.0% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.7%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.5%).

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 Waurika, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report Mexican roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.7%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (67.1%) 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 (17.9%) and 6.9% of residents also ride the bus for their daily commute. 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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