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Kingfisher, OK

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Overview


Kingfisher is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 4,964 people and just one neighborhood, Kingfisher is the 82nd largest community in Oklahoma.

Kingfisher real estate is some of the most expensive in Oklahoma, although Kingfisher house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Kingfisher isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Kingfisher are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Kingfisher is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Kingfisher who work in office and administrative support (14.27%), maintenance occupations (12.57%), and sales jobs (10.64%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.23 minutes getting to work every day.

Being a small city, Kingfisher does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Kingfisher is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.08% of adults 25 and older in Kingfisher have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Kingfisher in 2022 was $30,498, which is upper middle income relative to Oklahoma, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $121,992 for a family of four. However, Kingfisher contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Kingfisher is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kingfisher home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kingfisher residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Kingfisher also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.92% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kingfisher include German, English, Irish, Czech, and Italian.

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

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

Length of Commute

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. 62.7% 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 96.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.0%) living in the neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry.

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 Kingfisher are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 32.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.2%), and 17.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Chinese and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Kingfisher, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (16.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.3%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (62.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (73.5%) 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 (16.9%) . 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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