Colbert - Cartwright is a somewhat small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 5,590 people and just one neighborhood, Colbert - Cartwright is the 73rd largest community in Oklahoma.
Unlike some towns, Colbert - Cartwright isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Colbert - Cartwright are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Colbert - Cartwright is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Colbert - Cartwright who work in sales jobs (10.19%), office and administrative support (9.67%), and management occupations (8.83%).
A relatively large number of people in Colbert - Cartwright telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.69% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Colbert - Cartwright is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Colbert - Cartwright with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.56% of adults in Colbert - Cartwright have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Colbert - Cartwright in 2022 was $28,095, which is upper middle income relative to Oklahoma, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,380 for a family of four. However, Colbert - Cartwright contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Colbert - Cartwright is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Colbert - Cartwright home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Colbert - Cartwright residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Colbert - Cartwright include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Colbert - Cartwright is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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, 7.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Colbert - Cartwright are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.3% 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, 34.4% 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 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.8%).
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 Colbert - Cartwright, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report German roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (7.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.1%), among others.
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 (58.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.