Wyandotte is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 491 people and just one neighborhood, Wyandotte is the 289th largest community in Oklahoma.
Unlike some towns, Wyandotte isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Wyandotte are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wyandotte is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Wyandotte who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (12.15%), management occupations (11.05%), and office and administrative support (10.50%).
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!) Wyandotte 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. Wyandotte has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wyandotte than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wyandotte may be for you.
Being a small town, Wyandotte does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Wyandotte with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.70% of adults in Wyandotte have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wyandotte in 2022 was $21,499, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,996 for a family of four. However, Wyandotte contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wyandotte is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wyandotte home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wyandotte residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Wyandotte also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.19% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wyandotte include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Greek.
The most common language spoken in Wyandotte is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 34 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.9% 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, 16.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% 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 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Wyandotte are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 29.6% 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.8%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).
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 Wyandotte, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (16.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report English roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (11.5%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (30.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (10.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.