Profile of Surveyed Population

The city of Oakwood has a strong core of long-term residents (47 percent have lived in the city longer than 20 years). Only seventeen percent have arrived during the past five years. Two households in five (41 percent) include at least one child under the age of eighteen. Eighteen percent include just one adult living alone.

Two-thirds (67 percent) of the registered voters surveyed in this study have lived in the city longer than ten years. Half (51 percent) of those long-term residents are over 65 years of age and most (63 percent) are retired. Families who have lived in the city longer than 20 years are very likely to consist of only two (50 percent) or one (28 percent) individuals and only fourteen percent include a child under the age of eighteen.

New arrivals in Oakwood are predominantly young families. Most (64 percent) of the people who moved into the city during the past five years are under forty-five years of age and live with at least one child under the age of 18 (67 percent). Nearly half (49 percent) of these families include four or more people.

Only four percent of Oakwood’s registered voters rent their current homes. Most of those renters (47 percent) moved into the community during the past five years.

Nearly everyone (90 percent) who moved into the city of Oakwood during the past ten years felt welcomed by city employees and neighbors when they first arrived.