Drumright is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,535 people and just one neighborhood, Drumright is the 157th largest community in Oklahoma.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Drumright is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.01% of the Drumright workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Drumright is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Drumright who work in food service (11.22%), office and administrative support (9.20%), and sales jobs (8.82%).
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!) Drumright 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. Drumright has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Drumright than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Drumright may be for you.
Drumright is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Drumright, just 12.16% 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 Drumright in 2022 was $25,471, which is middle income relative to Oklahoma, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,884 for a family of four. However, Drumright contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Drumright is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Drumright home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Drumright residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Drumright include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Drumright is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
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, 8.0% 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 Drumright are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.8% 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, 35.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.4%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% 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 Drumright, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (8.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.