Fort Supply is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 319 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Supply is the 314th largest community in Oklahoma.
Fort Supply real estate is some of the most expensive in Oklahoma, although Fort Supply house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in Fort Supply, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.46% of Fort Supply’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Fort Supply is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Supply who work in office and administrative support (19.23%), sales jobs (17.31%), and healthcare suport services (8.65%).
The overall crime rate in Fort Supply is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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, Fort Supply has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fort Supply a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Fort Supply is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Fort Supply, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, Fort Supply does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Fort Supply is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.38% of adults 25 and older in Fort Supply have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fort Supply in 2022 was $30,827, 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 $123,308 for a family of four. However, Fort Supply contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Fort Supply home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Supply residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Fort Supply include Irish, German, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Fort Supply is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.0% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
In addition, if you are planning to retire in Oklahoma, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Oklahoma, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.6% of neighborhoods in OK. If a Oklahoma retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
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 97.7% 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, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% 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 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Fort Supply are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 65.3% of America'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, 39.7% 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 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Fort Supply, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.4%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.7%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.