Wewoka is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 3,084 people and just one neighborhood, Wewoka is the 124th largest community in Oklahoma.
Unlike some cities, Wewoka isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Wewoka are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wewoka is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wewoka who work in healthcare suport services (10.33%), management occupations (9.88%), and sales jobs (9.31%).
Wewoka is a small city, 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 people in Wewoka with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.91% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wewoka in 2022 was $19,805, which is low income relative to Oklahoma and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,220 for a family of four. However, Wewoka contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wewoka is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Wewoka home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wewoka residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Wewoka include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Wewoka is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages 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.
Of particular note, 2.4% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
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, 22.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Wewoka are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.2% 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, 28.2% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.7%), and 21.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.
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 Wewoka, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (22.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report German roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.0%) 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 (16.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.