With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Atwood works elsewhere
16% of workers have no commute at all, against 9% across Oklahoma. Atwood has 7 jobs for 40 working residents. Hardly any stay in Atwood for work; outside it, Oklahoma City is the main destination (20%, 75 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Atwood for work, and who comes in
On a workday 40 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 52 people are in Atwood on a workday afternoon, 39% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Atwood commutes to
Where Atwood clocks in
20% of workers
8% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Atwood
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Atwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Atwood: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Atwood workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 16 commuters (the 16% 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.
How far it is to work from Atwood
About 50% 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.
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 Atwood: questions
What is the poverty rate in Atwood?
60.7%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Atwood?
35 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Atwood work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oklahoma City (20%, 75 mi), McAlester (8%, 32 mi), Ada (8%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Atwood without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Atwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Atwood
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.