Depew is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 411 people and just one neighborhood, Depew is the 300th largest community in Oklahoma.
Depew is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Depew is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Depew who work in office and administrative support (11.45%), management occupations (9.64%), and teaching (8.43%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Depew has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Depew a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Depew is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Depew, the average commute to work is 31.07 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Depew 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 population of Depew has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.78% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Depew in 2022 was $20,177, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,708 for a family of four. However, Depew contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Depew also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.42% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Depew is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Depew home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Depew residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Depew include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Depew is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
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 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.9% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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, 10.2% 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 Depew are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 35.9% 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 33.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.0%), and 14.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Depew, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.8%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (13.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.