Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park · Photo: Photo by and ©2004 Dustin M. Ramsey (Kralizec!) · CC BY-SA 2.5Most of Bushyhead commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Bushyhead has 48 jobs for 493 working residents. For jobs and income Bushyhead is better than 33% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (D). Measured by household income, Bushyhead is behind 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Bushyhead: the gist
Bushyhead’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Bushyhead is Tulsa, 32 miles away as the crow flies. 26% of working residents (130) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Bushyhead is a place people come home to
There are 48 jobs based in Bushyhead, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bushyhead has about 840 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Bushyhead workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 22 across Oklahoma. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 493 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Bushyhead’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Bushyhead’s grade up (9.6%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($59,028, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (8.9%) is left out: Bushyhead’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bushyhead could be anywhere from D to B+.
Miles to work from Bushyhead
About 16% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Bushyhead
On a workday 491 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 46 people come in from elsewhere.
About 840 people are in Bushyhead on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Getting to work from Bushyhead takes about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bushyhead workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 542 commuters (the 9% 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.
26% of working residents work in Tulsa
Where Bushyhead clocks in
26% of workers
15% of workers
5% 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.
Making and building: 65% of jobs based in Bushyhead
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bushyhead, 2013 → 2023: 47 → 48. 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 Bushyhead’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Bushyhead, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.5% across Oklahoma, on an EPA index of 2.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 594 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). 0.6% of Bushyhead households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bushyhead’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bushyhead is 2,565th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Forest Park OK | 1,035 | $104K | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 643 | Justice OK | 1,530 | $98K | 7.5% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,136 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,563 | Pittsford Township MI | 1,536 | $71K | 9.1% | 1.2% | 4% | C |
| 2,564 | Churchill Township MI | 1,569 | $66K | 5.7% | 4.1% | 7% | C |
| 2,565 | Bushyhead OK | 1,289 | $59K | 9.6% | 8.9% | <1% | C |
| 2,566 | Killian LA | 1,260 | $68K | 13.2% | 3.4% | 3% | C |
| 2,567 | Red Lake Falls MN | 1,348 | $64K | 5.9% | 1.9% | 28% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Bushyhead, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
Work in the towns next to Bushyhead
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bushyhead workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bushyhead | – | C | D | 32 min | $59,028 |
| Foyil | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Foyil: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bushyhead’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 Bushyhead: questions
What is the median household income in Bushyhead?
$59,028 (±$16,948) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bushyhead?
9.6%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bushyhead?
32 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bushyhead work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tulsa (26%, 32 mi), Claremore (15%, 12 mi), Oklahoma City (5%, 132 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bushyhead walkable?
Bushyhead is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 2.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bushyhead without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bushyhead, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bushyhead
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.