Lexington is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,019 people and two associated neighborhoods, Lexington is the 175th largest community in Oklahoma.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lexington is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.06% of the Lexington workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lexington is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Lexington who work in office and administrative support (11.61%), food service (11.61%), and sales jobs (11.33%). It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Lexington 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. Lexington has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lexington than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lexington may be for you. In Lexington, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.79 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small city, Lexington does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in Lexington with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.90% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Lexington in 2022 was $22,299, which is lower middle income relative to Oklahoma, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $89,196 for a family of four. However, Lexington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lexington is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lexington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lexington residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Lexington also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.61% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lexington include Irish, German, European, English, and French. The most common language spoken in Lexington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
