Wann is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 98 people and just one neighborhood, Wann is the 347th largest community in Oklahoma.
Wann is a blue-collar town, with 36.17% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wann is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Wann who work in healthcare (19.15%), healthcare suport services (12.77%), and food service (6.38%).
Of important note, Wann is also a town of artists. Wann has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Wann’s character.
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.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 14.89% 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.
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.
One downside of living in Wann is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Wann, the average commute to work is 36.56 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Wann is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Wann have a very low rate of college education: just 9.28% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Wann in 2022 was $25,043, which is middle income relative to Oklahoma, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,172 for a family of four. However, Wann contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wann is a very 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 German, Irish, English, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Wann is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
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 95.1% 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, 16.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
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 Wann are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.0% 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, 37.1% 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 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.6%), and 15.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.1%).
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 Wann, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.2%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 (45.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.3%) 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 (7.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.