Commerce - North Miami is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,770 people and just one neighborhood, Commerce - North Miami is the 145th largest community in Oklahoma.
When you are in Commerce - North Miami, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.94% of Commerce - North Miami’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Commerce - North Miami is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Commerce - North Miami who work in office and administrative support (11.42%), sales jobs (7.64%), and teaching (6.17%).
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.35 minutes getting to work every day.
Commerce - North Miami 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 population of Commerce - North Miami has a very low overall level of education: only 9.60% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Commerce - North Miami in 2022 was $19,420, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,680 for a family of four. However, Commerce - North Miami contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Commerce - North Miami also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.18% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Commerce - North Miami is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Commerce - North Miami home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Commerce - North Miami residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Commerce - North Miami also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.59% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Commerce - North Miami include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and French.
The most common language spoken in Commerce - North Miami is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Pacific Island languages.
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 Commerce - North Miami, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 58.3% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
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, 16.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
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 Commerce - North Miami are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 34.1% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.1%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (17.0%).
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 Commerce - North Miami, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (19.7%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (16.8%), and residents who report German roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.2%), 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 (58.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.7%) 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 (10.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.