Moyers is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 60 people and just one neighborhood, Moyers is the 355th largest community in Oklahoma.
When you are in Moyers, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 68.00% of Moyers’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Moyers is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Moyers who work in sales jobs (24.00%), management occupations (8.00%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 17.39% 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.
Overall, Moyers’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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, Moyers has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Moyers a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Moyers, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 39.47 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Moyers doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Moyers with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.10% of adults in Moyers have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Moyers in 2022 was $22,050, 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 $88,200 for a family of four. However, Moyers contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Moyers also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.94% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Moyers is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Moyers home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moyers residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Moyers include English, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Moyers is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Moyers, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Oklahoma. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
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, 17.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% 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 95.6% 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 Moyers are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.7% 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, 29.4% 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.0%), and 18.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% 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 Moyers, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (17.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.1%) 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 (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.