Household incomes in Beggs are lower than in 92% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 31.2% of residents; Oklahoma has 15.3%. Jobs and income earn Beggs D; getting around on foot earns it C−. Only 4% stay in Beggs for work; outside it, Tulsa is the main destination (31%, 28 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Beggs stands out on work
Beggs workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 22 across Oklahoma. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 100 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Beggs than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Beggs fell from 503 in 2013 to 270 in 2023, −46%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
31% of Beggs works in Tulsa
147 working residents, 31%, have their main job in Tulsa, 28 miles away. That’s 8 times as many as work in Beggs itself. The commute map ↓
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 471 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Beggs’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Beggs is better than 10% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Beggs’ grade up (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Beggs’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Beggs could be anywhere from D to C−.
The daily trip from Beggs: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beggs workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 360 commuters (the 7% 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.
Most jobs in Beggs are in services
270 jobs are based in Beggs.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beggs, 2013 → 2023: 503 → 270. 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 Beggs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that employ Beggs’ residents
Where Beggs clocks in
31% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
Who leaves Beggs for work, and who comes in
On a workday 454 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 253 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Beggs on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.57 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
How far it is to work from Beggs
About 19% 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.
Most of Beggs commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Beggs is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 388 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). 6.6% of Beggs households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Beggs’ commuters take a bus or train.
3,533rd of 4,312: where Beggs ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Forest Park OK | 1,035 | $104K | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 564 | Justice OK | 1,530 | $98K | 7.5% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 996 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,531 | Moyie Springs ID | 1,317 | $62K | 14.7% | 7.0% | 4% | D |
| 3,532 | Basile LA | 1,192 | $52K | 17.4% | 17.7% | 3% | D |
| 3,533 | Beggs OK | 1,188 | $46K | 31.2% | 1.5% | 4% | D |
| 3,534 | Perryville AR | 1,408 | $57K | 20.6% | 1.3% | 17% | D |
| 3,535 | New Sharon IA | 1,247 | $49K | 14.4% | 3.8% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Beggs, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
The towns around Beggs
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Beggs workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beggs | – | D | C− | 35 min | $45,909 |
| Liberty | under 2% | — | — | 35 min | — |
| Winchester | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Liberty and Winchester: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Beggs’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Beggs: questions
What is the median household income in Beggs?
$45,909 (±$11,860) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beggs?
31.2%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beggs?
35 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beggs work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tulsa (31%, 28 mi), Oklahoma City (5%, 84 mi), Broken Arrow (4%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Beggs walkable?
Beggs is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Beggs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Beggs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beggs
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.