Bunch is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 70 people and just one neighborhood, Bunch is the 353rd largest community in Oklahoma.
When you are in Bunch, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 73.33% of Bunch’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Bunch is a town of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bunch who work in food service (20.00%), community and social services (6.67%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).
The overall crime rate in Bunch 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, Bunch is worth considering.
In Bunch, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.50 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Bunch is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Bunch, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Bunch 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 adults in Bunch with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.00% of adults in Bunch have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bunch in 2022 was $24,302, which is lower middle income relative to Oklahoma, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,208 for a family of four. However, Bunch contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bunch also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.88% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Bunch is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bunch home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bunch residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Bunch include Dutch, French, Danish, Irish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Bunch is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Langs. of India.
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 Bunch, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 21 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.5% 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, 54.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.7% 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 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Bunch are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.9% 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, 34.4% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.9% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (6.7%).
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 Bunch, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (54.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.7%), and residents who report German roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 (31.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.1%) 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 (11.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.