Mangum is a very small city located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,740 people and just one neighborhood, Mangum is the 147th largest community in Oklahoma.
Mangum is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mangum is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mangum who work in teaching (16.65%), office and administrative support (15.27%), and healthcare (11.43%).
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 15.97 minutes getting to work every day.
Mangum 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 adults in Mangum who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.23% of the adults in Mangum have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mangum in 2022 was $23,538, which is lower middle income relative to Oklahoma, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $94,152 for a family of four. However, Mangum contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mangum is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mangum home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mangum residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mangum also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.54% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mangum include Irish, English, German, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Mangum is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.7%) living in the neighborhood.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America, according to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
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. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Mangum are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.6% of America'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, 36.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.3%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.0%).
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 Mangum, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (14.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report English roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (54.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.