Okay is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 548 people and just one neighborhood, Okay is the 286th largest community in Oklahoma.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Okay is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.16% of the Okay workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Okay is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Okay who work in office and administrative support (15.93%), healthcare (10.44%), and sales jobs (9.34%).
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!) Okay 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. Okay has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Okay than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Okay may be for you.
Being a small town, Okay does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Okay have a very low rate of college education: just 8.52% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Okay in 2022 was $25,980, 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 $103,920 for a family of four. However, Okay contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Okay is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Okay home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Okay residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Okay include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Okay is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
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, 20.0% 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 Okay are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.6% 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, 36.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.8%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Okay, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (20.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report German roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.3%) 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 (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.