Big Cabin is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 179 people and just one neighborhood, Big Cabin is the 339th largest community in Oklahoma.
Big Cabin real estate is some of the most expensive in Oklahoma, although Big Cabin house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in Big Cabin, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.18% of Big Cabin’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Big Cabin is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Big Cabin who work in office and administrative support (13.24%), healthcare (13.24%), and food service (10.29%).
A relatively large number of people in Big Cabin telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.82% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Big Cabin’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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, Big Cabin is worth considering.
Being a small town, Big Cabin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Big Cabin rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.79% of adults 25 and older in Big Cabin have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Big Cabin in 2022 was $26,762, 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 $107,048 for a family of four. However, Big Cabin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Big Cabin also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.48% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Big Cabin is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Big Cabin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Big Cabin residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Big Cabin include Irish, German, English, Swedish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Big Cabin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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 9 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.3% of America.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 18.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 2.8% have British 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 Big Cabin are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.1% 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, 38.4% 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 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.2%), and 14.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.7%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Big Cabin, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (18.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report German roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (71.2%) 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 (9.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.