Barnsdall - Avant is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,857 people and just one neighborhood, Barnsdall - Avant is the 139th largest community in Oklahoma.
Barnsdall - Avant is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Barnsdall - Avant is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Barnsdall - Avant who work in office and administrative support (9.68%), sales jobs (9.25%), and management occupations (8.49%).
Of important note, Barnsdall - Avant is also a town of artists. Barnsdall - Avant has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Barnsdall - Avant’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Barnsdall - Avant telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.21% 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.
In Barnsdall - Avant, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.87 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The education level of Barnsdall - Avant citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.29% of adults 25 and older in Barnsdall - Avant have a college degree.
The per capita income in Barnsdall - Avant in 2022 was $26,936, 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 $107,744 for a family of four. However, Barnsdall - Avant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Barnsdall - Avant is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Barnsdall - Avant home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Barnsdall - Avant residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Barnsdall - Avant include Irish, German, English, Dutch, and European.
The most common language spoken in Barnsdall - Avant is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Barnsdall - Avant, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 14 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 9.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 3.9% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Barnsdall - Avant are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.6% 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, 37.1% 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.1%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% 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 Barnsdall - Avant, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report English roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (9.5%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.4%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (26.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (78.2%) 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 (11.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.