Panama - Shady Point is a somewhat small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 5,621 people and just one neighborhood, Panama - Shady Point is the 72nd largest community in Oklahoma.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Panama - Shady Point is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Panama - Shady Point is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Panama - Shady Point who work in sales jobs (14.78%), office and administrative support (11.47%), and teaching (8.20%).
The rate of college-level education in Panama - Shady Point is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.55% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Panama - Shady Point in 2022 was $24,119, 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 $96,476 for a family of four. However, Panama - Shady Point contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Panama - Shady Point is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Panama - Shady Point home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Panama - Shady Point residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Panama - Shady Point include Irish, English, German, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Panama - Shady Point is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.
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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 32 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.4% of 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, 11.4% 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 Panama - Shady Point are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 28.6% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.7%), and 17.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% 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 Panama - Shady Point, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.5%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report English roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (35.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.7%) 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 (9.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.