Fletcher - Sterling is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 4,605 people and just one neighborhood, Fletcher - Sterling is the 86th largest community in Oklahoma.
Fletcher - Sterling is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Fletcher - Sterling is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fletcher - Sterling who work in office and administrative support (13.07%), teaching (10.86%), and sales jobs (10.65%).
Being a small town, Fletcher - Sterling does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Fletcher - Sterling with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.89% of adults in Fletcher - Sterling have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fletcher - Sterling in 2022 was $36,672, which is wealthy relative to Oklahoma, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,688 for a family of four. However, Fletcher - Sterling contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fletcher - Sterling is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fletcher - Sterling home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fletcher - Sterling residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Fletcher - Sterling include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Fletcher - Sterling is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
Our research reveals that 92.9% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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, 3.5% 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 Fletcher - Sterling are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.4% 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, 33.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.8%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% 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 Fletcher - Sterling, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report English roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (92.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.