Thackerville is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 405 people and just one neighborhood, Thackerville is the 303rd largest community in Oklahoma.
Thackerville real estate is some of the most expensive in Oklahoma, although Thackerville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Thackerville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Thackerville is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Thackerville who work in sales jobs (17.79%), personal care services (14.90%), and maintenance occupations (8.65%).
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, Thackerville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Thackerville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.45 minutes getting to work every day.
Thackerville 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.
The population of Thackerville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.23% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Thackerville in 2022 was $25,947, 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 $103,788 for a family of four. However, Thackerville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Thackerville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Thackerville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Thackerville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Thackerville include Irish, German, French, English, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Thackerville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
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.
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, 5.2% 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 Thackerville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.7% 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, 32.9% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.7%), and 13.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.2%).
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 Thackerville, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report Mexican roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.1%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (5.2%), 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 (37.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.2%) 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 (13.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.