Arkoma is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 1,829 people and just one neighborhood, Arkoma is the 185th largest community in Oklahoma.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Arkoma is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.99% of the Arkoma workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Arkoma is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Arkoma who work in food service (12.16%), teaching (10.96%), and sales jobs (10.81%).
The overall crime rate in Arkoma is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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, Arkoma is worth considering.
One of the benefits of Arkoma is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.57 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Arkoma 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 percentage of people in Arkoma with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.42% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Arkoma in 2022 was $20,024, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,096 for a family of four. However, Arkoma contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Arkoma is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Arkoma home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Arkoma residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Arkoma include Irish, German, English, French, and European.
The most common language spoken in Arkoma 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.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Arkoma is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in OK, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 88.9% of the neighborhoods in Oklahoma. If you are considering retiring to Oklahoma, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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, 8.8% 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 Arkoma are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.1% 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, 37.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.2%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.
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 Arkoma, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report Native American roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.5%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.