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Moyers, OK

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Overview


Moyers is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 60 people and just one neighborhood, Moyers is the 355th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Moyers, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 68.00% of Moyers’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Moyers is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Moyers who work in sales jobs (24.00%), management occupations (8.00%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).

A relatively large number of people in Moyers telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.39% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Moyers’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Moyers has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Moyers a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Moyers is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Moyers, the average commute to work is 39.47 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Moyers does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Moyers are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.10% of adults in Moyers have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Moyers in 2022 was $22,050, 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 $88,200 for a family of four. However, Moyers contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Moyers also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.94% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Moyers is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Moyers home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moyers residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Moyers include English, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Moyers is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Moyers, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

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 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America. 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.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Oklahoma. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

Diversity

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, 17.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.6% 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 Moyers are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.7% 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, 29.4% 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.0%), and 18.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Moyers, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (17.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.

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 (40.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.1%) 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 (10.2%) . 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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