Temple - Randlett is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 1,952 people and just one neighborhood, Temple - Randlett is the 178th largest community in Oklahoma.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Temple - Randlett is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.37% of the Temple - Randlett workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Temple - Randlett is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Temple - Randlett who work in office and administrative support (10.95%), teaching (10.83%), and management occupations (8.44%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Temple - Randlett has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Temple - Randlett a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Temple - Randlett, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.45 minutes every day commuting to work.
Temple - Randlett 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 percentage of adults in Temple - Randlett who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.97% of the adults in Temple - Randlett have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Temple - Randlett in 2022 was $35,942, which is wealthy relative to Oklahoma, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $143,768 for a family of four. However, Temple - Randlett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Temple - Randlett is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Temple - Randlett home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Temple - Randlett residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Temple - Randlett also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.38% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Temple - Randlett include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and European.
The most common language spoken in Temple - Randlett is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 6 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.0% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
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, 2.0% 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 Temple - Randlett are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.4% 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, 33.9% 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 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (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 Temple - Randlett, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (10.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (5.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.8%) 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 (19.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.