Ketchum is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 502 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ketchum is the 292nd largest community in Oklahoma.Ketchum is a blue-collar town, with 36.63% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ketchum is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ketchum who work in office and administrative support (15.23%), food service (9.47%), and sales jobs (9.05%). 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!) Ketchum 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. Ketchum has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ketchum than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ketchum may be for you. Being a small town, Ketchum does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Ketchum is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.85% of adults 25 and older in Ketchum have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Ketchum in 2022 was $24,879, which is middle income relative to Oklahoma, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,516 for a family of four. However, Ketchum contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ketchum is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ketchum home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ketchum residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Ketchum include German, Irish, European, English, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Ketchum is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
