Oklahoma College for Women Historic District · Photo: Crimsonedge34 · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Chickasha are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns
About one in three work in Chickasha itself; outside it, Oklahoma City draws the most (18%, 38 miles). 17.5% of residents are in poverty, where Oklahoma as a whole has 15.3%. Jobs and income earn Chickasha C−; getting around on foot earns it B+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Chickasha: the figures worth knowing
Why Chickasha gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Job access by car holds Chickasha’s grade up (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($54,111, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Chickasha could be anywhere from D to C.
How far Chickasha goes to work
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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 4,044 residents head out to work, 2,453 work right here, and 4,936 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.14 per resident).
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 Chickasha commutes to
Where Chickasha clocks in
18% 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.
Jobs in Chickasha: what the 7,389 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chickasha, 2013 → 2023: 7,732 → 7,389. 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 Chickasha’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Chickasha, about 19 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chickasha workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,022 commuters (the 4% 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.
Few in Chickasha walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Chickasha is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns, #22 of 131 in Oklahoma. Both inputs place Chickasha near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 7,285 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). 9.9% of Chickasha households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Chickasha’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Chickasha compares with U.S. towns of 12,000 to 23,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 369 | Newcastle OK | 15,198 | $93K | 3.8% | 2.8% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 556 | Choctaw OK | 12,549 | $101K | 6.3% | 3.1% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 977 | Glenpool OK | 14,705 | $80K | 11.0% | 3.3% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,803 | Alice TX | 17,550 | $49K | 31.4% | 4.1% | 37% | C− |
| 1,804 | Johnson City NY | 14,580 | $56K | 19.6% | 11.4% | 15% | C− |
| 1,805 | Chickasha OK | 17,313 | $54K | 17.5% | 6.9% | 38% | C− |
| 1,806 | Bayshore Gardens FL | 18,131 | $45K | 15.0% | 11.4% | 2% | C− |
| 1,807 | Bemidji MN | 15,770 | $55K | 21.3% | 5.2% | 55% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,999 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Chickasha, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
The towns around Chickasha
The biggest share goes to Ninnekah (1%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Chickasha workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chickasha | – | C− | B+ | 19 min | $54,111 |
| Ninnekah | 1% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Ninnekah: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Chickasha’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 Chickasha: questions
What is the median household income in Chickasha?
$54,111 (±$2,500) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chickasha?
17.5%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chickasha?
19 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chickasha work?
38% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oklahoma City (18%, 38 mi), Tulsa (3%, 137 mi), Norman (3%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Chickasha walkable?
Chickasha is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Chickasha without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chickasha, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chickasha
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.