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!) Vinita 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. Vinita has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Vinita than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Vinita 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 17.68 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Vinita does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Vinita with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.34% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Vinita in 2022 was $22,195, which is lower middle income relative to Oklahoma, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $88,780 for a family of four. However, Vinita contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Vinita is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Vinita home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vinita residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Vinita include Irish, German, English, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Vinita is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
