These Are The 10 Best Cities For Hippies In Oklahoma

You might think that the whole hippie movement has faded away, but the truth is, there are plenty of hippies out there in Oklahoma.

While they aren’t necessarily in your face all the time with war protests and the next Woodstock isn’t being planned any time soon, we thought it would be fun to look at which cities in the Sooner State where the most hippies would live.

And, after crunching the data, you know what? It was pretty spot on, we have to say.

How do you decide where the most hippies live? By the number of yoga studios, organic markets, and most importantly, where the liberals live in droves.

Using that criteria, it’s not hard to scrape the internet, run some scientific data on where hippies might live in Oklahoma, and then put out a list.

So, put on your tie dye shirt and your sandals as you go through this list with us.

After analyzing all cities with a decent amount of people in them, we came up with this list of the 10 best cities for hippies in Oklahoma:

1. Warr Acres
2. Bethany (Photos)
3. Grove
4. Grove
5. Jenks (Photos)
6. Tahlequah (Photos)
7. Bixby (Photos)
8. Moore (Photos)
9. Cushing (Photos)
10. Edmond (Photos)

Read on below to see where your town ranked, young flower child.

And if you already knew these places were hippie heavens, check out the best places to live in Oklahoma or the safest places to live in Oklahoma.

How do you determine the most beatnik city in Oklahoma?

In order to rank the best cities for hippies in Oklahoma, we had to determine what criteria defines a hippie.

We threw a lot of criteria at this one in order to get the best, most complete results possible. Using the Google Places API, the Census’s 2010-2014 American Community Survey, and Voter Registration data, this is the criteria we used:

• Number of yoga studios per capita
• Number of organic markets per capita
• Number of pet adoption centers per capita
• Number of vegan restaurants per capita
• Number of thrift stores per capita
• Each city’s liberal voting population

Note: For the sake of getting reliable numbers, we counted places within a ~4.5 mile radius of a city’s center. The average city in America is about 18 square miles.

All of these results are listed in a per capita basis, meaning number of stores per person in a city. Additionally, we limited the analysis to non-CDPs that have over 5,000 people.

We ranked each place with scores from 1 to 71 in each category, where 1 was the most hippie.

Next, we averaged the rankings for each place to create a hippie index.

And finally, we crowned the city with the highest hippie index the ‘Best City for Hippies In Oklahoma.’ We’re lookin’ at you, Warr Acres.

Read on below to learn more about what it’s like to live in hippie central. Or skip to the end to see the list of all the places in the state from hippiest to most square.

1. Warr Acres

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 0.78
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.49
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.68
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 0.39
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 2.92
Warr Acres is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. It was established after World War II by C.B. Warr, a dynamic businessman, builder, and commercial developer. The population was 10,043 at the 2010 census.

2. Bethany

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 0.26
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.21
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.46
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 0.36
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 1.29
Bethany is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. The community was founded in 1909 by followers of the Church of the Nazarene from Oklahoma City.

3. Grove

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 0.6
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.3
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.45
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 1.35
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 1.5
Grove is a city in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 6,623 at the 2010 census, an increase of 27.6 percent from 5,131 in 2000.

4. Grove

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 0.45
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.3
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.3
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 0.15
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 2.4
Grove is a city in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 6,623 at the 2010 census, an increase of 27.6 percent from 5,131 in 2000.

5. Jenks

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 0.22
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.11
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.16
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 0.22
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 0.27
Jenks is a city in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, and a suburb of Tulsa, in the northeastern part of the state. It is situated between the Arkansas River and U.S. Route 75. Jenks is one of the fastest growing cities in Oklahoma. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 9,557, but by 2010, the population was 16,924, an increase of 77.1 percent.

6. Tahlequah

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 0.06
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.0
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.12
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 0.19
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 0.49
Tahlequah (/tælkw/ TAL–kwah; Cherokee: ) is a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is part of the Green Country region of Oklahoma and was established as a capital of the 19th-century Cherokee Nation in 1839, as part of the new settlement in Indian Territory after the Cherokee Native Americans were forced west from the American Southeast on the Trail of Tears.

7. Bixby

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 0.09
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.04
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.09
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 0.04
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 0.71

8. Moore

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 0.09
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.02
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.07
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 0.24
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 0.23
Moore is a city in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, United States, and is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. The population was 55,081 at the 2010 census, making Moore the 7th largest city in the state of Oklahoma.

9. Cushing

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 0.0
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.13
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.13
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 0.13
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 0.25
Cushing is a city in Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 7,826 at the 2010 census, a decline of 6.5 percent from 8,371 at the 2000 census.

10. Edmond

Yoga Studios Per 1,000 People: 0.09
Organic Markets Per 1,000 People: 0.05
Pet Adoption Centers Per 1,000 People: 0.02
Vegan Restaurants Per 1,000 People: 0.08
Thrift Stores Per 1,000 People: 0.19
Edmond is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area in the central part of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 81,405, making it the sixth largest city in the state of Oklahoma.

There You Have It — The Hippies Of Oklahoma

If you’re measuring the locations in Oklahoma where there are lots of liberals, and there are many options for vegan food, yoga and thrift stores, this is an accurate list.

If you’re curious, here are the most square places in Oklahoma:

1. Blanchard
2. Idabel
3. Guymon

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