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Stroud, OK

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Overview


Stroud is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,809 people and just one neighborhood, Stroud is the 150th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Stroud isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Stroud are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Stroud is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stroud who work in office and administrative support (16.10%), sales jobs (11.95%), and management occupations (11.43%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Stroud has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Stroud has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Stroud than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Stroud may be for you.

As is often the case in a small city, Stroud doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Stroud rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.04% of adults 25 and older in Stroud have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Stroud in 2022 was $27,993, 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 $111,972 for a family of four. However, Stroud contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Stroud is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Stroud home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stroud residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Stroud include Irish, German, English, Italian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Stroud is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 97.2% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

Real Estate

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 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.3% of America.

Diversity

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, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Stroud are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.5% 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, 30.1% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.6%), and 18.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Stroud, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report English roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (6.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (41.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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