Photo: Photolitherland Chris Litherland · CC BY 3.0Household incomes in Antlers trail those of 98% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 26.2% of residents, where Oklahoma as a whole has 15.3%. The two grades for Antlers are D− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. About one in three stay in Antlers for work; outside it, Durant is the main destination (7%, 47 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Antlers in brief
Antlers is where the jobs are
Antlers has 1,279 jobs, 1.5 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Fewer than half of Antlers workers earn over $40,000 a year
41% of Antlers’ working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 20% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 835 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Antlers earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Antlers is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Antlers’ grade.
Unemployment (8.6%) is left out: Antlers’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Antlers stays D−.
The daily commute in and out of Antlers
On a workday 566 residents head out to work, 269 work right here, and 1,010 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,600 people are in Antlers on a workday afternoon, 20% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What Antlers’ employers do
1,279 jobs are based in Antlers.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Antlers, 2013 → 2023: 1,542 → 1,279. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Antlers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip into Antlers
Where Antlers clocks in
7% of workers
6% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The daily trip from Antlers: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Antlers workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 843 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Oklahoma: 85% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Short hops and long hauls from Antlers
About 26% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting around Antlers: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Antlers is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.5% across Oklahoma.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 872 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 17.7% of Antlers households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Antlers’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Antlers compares with U.S. towns of 1,500 to 3,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,032 | Justice OK | 1,530 | $98K | 7.5% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,329 | Kiefer OK | 2,310 | $83K | 10.4% | 3.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,330 | Union City OK | 2,129 | $106K | 11.5% | 2.9% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,502 | Las Animas CO | 2,325 | $52K | 35.7% | 9.2% | 19% | D− |
| 5,503 | Pearson GA | 1,908 | $32K | 36.4% | 6.0% | 18% | D− |
| 5,504 | Antlers OK | 2,186 | $36K | 26.2% | 8.6% | 32% | D− |
| 5,505 | Hartshorne OK | 1,877 | $40K | 23.6% | 5.3% | 9% | D− |
| 5,506 | Mountain City TN | 2,490 | $39K | 34.1% | 6.6% | 25% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,641 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Antlers, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Antlers: questions
What is the median household income in Antlers?
$36,336 (±$7,785) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Antlers?
26.2%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Antlers?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Antlers work?
32% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Durant (7%, 47 mi), Hugo (6%, 17 mi), Tulsa (3%, 132 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Antlers walkable?
Antlers is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Antlers without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Antlers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Antlers
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.