Fort Supply is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 315 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Supply is the 314th largest community in Oklahoma.
Fort Supply real estate is some of the most expensive in Oklahoma, although Fort Supply house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in Fort Supply, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.27% of Fort Supply’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Fort Supply is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Supply who work in office and administrative support (23.65%), management occupations (8.11%), and teaching (6.76%).
Overall, Fort Supply’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Fort Supply has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fort Supply a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Fort Supply 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 overall education level of Fort Supply citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.93% of adults in Fort Supply have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Fort Supply in 2022 was $28,500, 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 $114,000 for a family of four. However, Fort Supply contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fort Supply is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Supply home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Supply residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Fort Supply also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.04% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Supply include German, French, English, Irish, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Fort Supply 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.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.0% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 7 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% 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 96.6% 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 Fort Supply are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 62.8% of America'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, 37.8% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.9%), and 9.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Fort Supply, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.7%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (15.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.