Drumright is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,535 people and just one neighborhood, Drumright is the 157th largest community in Oklahoma.
Drumright is a blue-collar town, with 39.78% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Drumright is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Drumright who work in food service (13.26%), office and administrative support (9.72%), and sales jobs (8.40%).
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, Drumright has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Drumright a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Drumright is a small city, 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 Drumright has a very low overall level of education: only 8.60% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Drumright in 2022 was $26,246, 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 $104,984 for a family of four. However, Drumright contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Drumright is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Drumright home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Drumright residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Drumright include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Drumright is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Drumright, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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, 9.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Drumright are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.4% 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, 39.3% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.9%), and 15.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Drumright, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Native American roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.
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 (36.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (86.1%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.