August 4, 2016
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
Another survey has ranked a Western Oklahoma Community as a best place to live and work.
A national website, Zippia, calling itself the Career Expert came out with the top ten most successful cities in Oklahoma with more than 5,000 people and ranked Elk City as the 10th most successful community.
Elk City is the only rural community in the top ten. The other nine communities are near Tulsa or Oklahoma City.
Elk City, City Manager Lee Litterell says when one puts the most recent ranking with other “top community” lists, it bodes well for the city.
According to a press release from Zippia, the survey looked at a number of data to determine where the best of the best are living in Oklahoma.
Litterell says the listing comes from an independent, outside agency that looks only at data numbers.
Zippia says, using data regarding poverty level, median household income and unemployment rates, it determined the unarguable, totally objective 10 most successful cities in Oklahoma and found Elk City at number ten, the only strictly rural community to make the top ten.
The ten most successful communities in Oklahoma, as defined by Zippia.com, are: Piedmont, Jenks, Newcastle, Bixby, Mustang, Yukon, Tuttle, Broken Arrow, Choctaw and Elk City.
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