Dewey is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 3,398 people and just one neighborhood, Dewey is the 112th largest community in Oklahoma.
Unlike some cities, Dewey isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Dewey are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Dewey is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Dewey who work in office and administrative support (12.88%), sales jobs (12.64%), and management occupations (10.58%).
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Dewey spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.54 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Dewey 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 education level of Dewey citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.41% of adults 25 and older in Dewey have a college degree.
The per capita income in Dewey in 2022 was $22,591, 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 $90,364 for a family of four. However, Dewey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Dewey is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dewey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dewey residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Dewey include German, Irish, English, British, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Dewey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Dewey, 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 and British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 2.6% have British ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Dewey are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.0% 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, 34.5% 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 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 91.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Dewey, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.6%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report English roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (6.3%), 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 (52.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.4%) 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 (7.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.