Rentiesville is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 106 people and just one neighborhood, Rentiesville is the 344th largest community in Oklahoma.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rentiesville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 76.60% of the Rentiesville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rentiesville is a town of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Rentiesville who work in sales jobs (4.26%), healthcare (4.26%), and teaching (4.26%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.52% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Rentiesville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Rentiesville is worth considering.
One downside of living in Rentiesville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Rentiesville, the average commute to work is 37.50 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Rentiesville 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.
In Rentiesville, just 11.54% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Rentiesville in 2022 was $27,252, which is middle income relative to Oklahoma, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $109,008 for a family of four. However, Rentiesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Rentiesville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rentiesville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rentiesville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Rentiesville include Scottish, Irish, German, French Canadian, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Rentiesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Italian.
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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 19.0% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.4% of all neighborhoods in America.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 39.9% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 31.1% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Furthermore, 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 19 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.9% of America.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 6.1% have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% 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 Rentiesville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.4% 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, 34.7% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 16.1% 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 84.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.
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 Rentiesville, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.0%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (6.1%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (26.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (19.0%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (5.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.