Barnsdall - Avant is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,848 people and just one neighborhood, Barnsdall - Avant is the 139th largest community in Oklahoma.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Barnsdall - Avant is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Barnsdall - Avant is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Barnsdall - Avant who work in office and administrative support (9.04%), sales jobs (8.79%), and business and financial occupations (7.49%).
Of important note, Barnsdall - Avant is also a town of artists. Barnsdall - Avant has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Barnsdall - Avant’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.33% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
In Barnsdall - Avant, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.97 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The percentage of adults in Barnsdall - Avant who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.88% of the adults in Barnsdall - Avant have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Barnsdall - Avant in 2022 was $26,416, 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 $105,664 for a family of four. However, Barnsdall - Avant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Barnsdall - Avant is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Barnsdall - Avant home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Barnsdall - Avant residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Barnsdall - Avant include Irish, German, English, European, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Barnsdall - Avant 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.
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 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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, 10.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 21.9% have Irish 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 Barnsdall - Avant are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.9% 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, 36.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.8%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% 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 Barnsdall - Avant, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (21.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.2%), and residents who report Native American roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.9%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.6%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (26.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (77.8%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.