Pawhuska is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,934 people and two associated neighborhoods, Pawhuska is the 132nd largest community in Oklahoma.Pawhuska is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pawhuska is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pawhuska who work in office and administrative support (12.80%), management occupations (9.62%), and teaching (8.89%). Also of interest is that Pawhuska has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Pawhuska has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Pawhuska has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pawhuska than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pawhuska may be for you. Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.71 minutes getting to work every day. As is often the case in a small city, Pawhuska doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The percentage of adults in Pawhuska with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.34% of adults in Pawhuska have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Pawhuska in 2022 was $24,792, 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 $99,168 for a family of four. However, Pawhuska contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Pawhuska is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pawhuska home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pawhuska residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Pawhuska include Irish, German, English, French, and European. The most common language spoken in Pawhuska is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
