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Hennessey, OK

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Overview


Hennessey is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,156 people and just one neighborhood, Hennessey is the 170th largest community in Oklahoma.

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

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hennessey is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 47.13% of the Hennessey workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hennessey is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hennessey who work in healthcare (12.84%), office and administrative support (9.52%), and sales jobs (7.36%).

Also of interest is that Hennessey has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Hennessey spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.11 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Hennessey is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Hennessey are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.93% of adults in Hennessey having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Hennessey in 2022 was $40,084, which is wealthy relative to Oklahoma, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,336 for a family of four. However, Hennessey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Hennessey is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hennessey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hennessey residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Hennessey also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.12% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Hennessey include English, German, Irish, Czech, and Scots-Irish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 92.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.5% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 3.3% have Scots-Irish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.4% 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 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hennessey are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.4% 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, 39.3% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.5%), and 14.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 77.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (22.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Hennessey, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report German roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.5%), among others. In addition, 16.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (48.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (92.0%) 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.


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