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Wetumka - Dustin is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,480 people and just one neighborhood, Wetumka - Dustin is the 160th largest community in Oklahoma.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns, Wetumka - Dustin isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Wetumka - Dustin are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wetumka - Dustin is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wetumka - Dustin who work in office and administrative support (24.46%), teaching (8.91%), and management occupations (8.00%).
A relatively large number of people in Wetumka - Dustin telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.20% 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
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Wetumka - Dustin has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Wetumka - Dustin has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wetumka - Dustin than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wetumka - Dustin may be for you.
One downside of living in Wetumka - Dustin is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Wetumka - Dustin, the average commute to work is 34.41 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Wetumka - Dustin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The percentage of people in Wetumka - Dustin with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.89% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wetumka - Dustin in 2022 was $28,064, which is upper middle income relative to Oklahoma, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,256 for a family of four. However, Wetumka - Dustin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wetumka - Dustin is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wetumka - Dustin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wetumka - Dustin residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Wetumka - Dustin include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Wetumka - Dustin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.
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 Wetumka - Dustin, 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 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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, 30.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.5% 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 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
The Neighbors
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 Wetumka - Dustin are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.7% 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, 29.9% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.3%), and 17.8% 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 90.9% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (4.5%).
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 Wetumka - Dustin, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (30.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report English roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (38.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.3%) 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
