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Delaware - Lenapah, OK

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Overview


Delaware - Lenapah is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 1,446 people and just one neighborhood, Delaware - Lenapah is the 203rd largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Delaware - Lenapah is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Delaware - Lenapah is a town of managers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Delaware - Lenapah who work in management occupations (14.60%), office and administrative support (11.68%), and healthcare suport services (10.82%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Delaware - Lenapah is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Delaware - Lenapah, the average commute to work is 31.86 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The citizens of Delaware - Lenapah are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.76% of adults in Delaware - Lenapah have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Delaware - Lenapah in 2022 was $26,437, 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 $105,748 for a family of four. However, Delaware - Lenapah contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Delaware - Lenapah is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Delaware - Lenapah home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Delaware - Lenapah residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Delaware - Lenapah include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and French.

The most common language spoken in Delaware - Lenapah is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 22.0% have Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Delaware - Lenapah are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.2% 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, 31.8% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.5%), and 13.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Delaware - Lenapah, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (22.0%), and residents who report Native American roots (16.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (14.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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