Heavener is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 3,024 people and just one neighborhood, Heavener is the 131st largest community in Oklahoma.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Heavener is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.39% of the Heavener workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Heavener is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Heavener who work in maintenance occupations (10.02%), food service (9.83%), and office and administrative support (7.26%).
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!) Heavener 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. Heavener has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Heavener than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Heavener may be for you.
Being a small city, Heavener does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Heavener have a very low rate of college education: just 9.40% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Heavener in 2022 was $18,072, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $72,288 for a family of four. However, Heavener contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Heavener also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.30% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Heavener is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Heavener home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Heavener residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Heavener also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 35.12% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Heavener include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Italian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Heavener's cultural character, accounting for 15.58% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Heavener is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
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.
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 94.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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, 9.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
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 Heavener are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.1% 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, 34.8% 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.7%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 83.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (16.7%).
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 Heavener, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (20.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.8%), and residents who report German roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.7%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (9.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (86.2%) 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.