Rush Springs is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 1,007 people and just one neighborhood, Rush Springs is the 236th largest community in Oklahoma.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rush Springs is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.77% of the Rush Springs workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rush Springs is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rush Springs who work in management occupations (14.63%), sales jobs (13.10%), and teaching (8.73%).
Rush Springs 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.
In Rush Springs, just 12.04% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Rush Springs in 2022 was $20,855, 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 $83,420 for a family of four.
Rush Springs is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rush Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rush Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Rush Springs include English, Irish, German, Scandinavian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Rush Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Pacific Island languages 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.
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 13 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.4% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 1.2% have Finnish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.7% 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 95.6% 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 Rush Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.9% 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, 37.4% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% 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 Rush Springs, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report English roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.8%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (85.6%) 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 (11.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.