Porum is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 605 people and just one neighborhood, Porum is the 275th largest community in Oklahoma.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Porum is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Porum is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Porum who work in office and administrative support (23.64%), healthcare suport services (15.15%), and sales jobs (8.48%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 20.61% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
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, Porum has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Porum a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Porum is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Porum, the average commute to work is 34.56 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Porum doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Porum has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.90% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Porum in 2022 was $12,642, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $50,568 for a family of four. Porum also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.10% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Porum is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Porum home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Porum residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Porum include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Porum is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 19 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.9% 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, 13.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American 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 Porum are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.4% 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, 34.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.2%), and 16.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% 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 Porum, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (13.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report English roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (36.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (71.7%) 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 (16.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.