Most of Copeland commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are lower than in 78% of U.S. towns. Employers in Copeland report 101 jobs for 532 working residents. Jobs and income earn Copeland D; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Copeland: the gist
Copeland is a place people come home to
There are 101 jobs based in Copeland, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Copeland has about 970 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
40% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Fewer than half of Copeland workers earn over $40,000 a year
41% of Copeland’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 15% 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 532 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Copeland
On income, poverty and job access, Copeland is better than 8% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Copeland’s grade up (16.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.5%) is left out: Copeland’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, Copeland could be anywhere from D− to C−.
In and out of Copeland on a workday
On a workday 514 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 83 people come in from elsewhere.
About 970 people are in Copeland on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
How many miles Copeland commutes
About 40% 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 Copeland’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Copeland, 2013 → 2023: 42 → 101. 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 Copeland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
19% of working residents work in Grove
Where Copeland clocks in
11% 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.
Each way, about 26 minutes from Copeland
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Copeland workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 572 commuters (the 6% 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.
Copeland is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Copeland is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.5% across Oklahoma, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 611 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). 5.4% of Copeland households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Copeland’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Copeland is 5,033rd of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Forest Park OK | 1,035 | $104K | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 812 | Justice OK | 1,530 | $98K | 7.5% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,417 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,031 | Villenova NY | 1,047 | $64K | 20.1% | 1.1% | 1% | D |
| 5,032 | Elizabethtown NY | 1,180 | $57K | 16.2% | 5.5% | 24% | D |
| 5,033 | Copeland OK | 1,401 | $58K | 16.1% | 4.5% | 3% | D |
| 5,034 | Los Altos TX | 1,082 | $22K | 91.1% | 12.1% | 0% | D |
| 5,035 | Pierce City MO | 1,275 | $51K | 31.8% | 5.2% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Copeland, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
19% of Copeland works in a town next door
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Grove. Darker towns draw more of Copeland’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 Copeland: questions
What is the median household income in Copeland?
$57,558 (±$12,045) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Copeland?
16.1%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Copeland?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Copeland work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grove (19%, 6 mi), Tulsa (11%, 70 mi), Miami (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Copeland walkable?
Copeland is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Copeland without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Copeland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Copeland
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.