Depew is a tiny town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 413 people and just one neighborhood, Depew is the 300th largest community in Oklahoma.
Depew is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Depew is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Depew who work in office and administrative support (11.45%), management occupations (9.64%), and teaching (8.43%).
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!) Depew 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. Depew has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Depew than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Depew may be for you.
One downside of living in Depew is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Depew, the average commute to work is 31.07 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Depew doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Depew has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.78% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Depew in 2022 was $20,177, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,708 for a family of four. However, Depew contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Depew also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.42% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Depew is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Depew home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Depew residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Depew include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Depew is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
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 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.9% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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, 10.2% 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 Depew are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.0% 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, 35.9% 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 33.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.0%), and 14.0% 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 98.9% of households.
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 Depew, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.8%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (13.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.