Wann is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 97 people and just one neighborhood, Wann is the 347th largest community in Oklahoma.
Unlike some towns, Wann isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Wann are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wann is a town of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Wann who work in healthcare (21.05%), healthcare suport services (15.79%), and food service (5.26%).
Also of interest is that Wann has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Wann telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 21.05% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Wann 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. Wann has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wann than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wann may be for you.
In Wann, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.75 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Wann doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Wann has a very low overall level of education: only 6.17% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Wann in 2022 was $24,978, which is middle income relative to Oklahoma, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,912 for a family of four. However, Wann contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wann is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wann home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wann residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Wann include Irish, German, English, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Wann is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Wann, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 18 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 17.1% 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 Wann are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.5% 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, 39.1% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.5%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.1%).
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 Wann, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.1%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (17.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (12.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.