Crescent has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
Crescent grades D for jobs and income and C for walkability. Employers in Crescent report 236 jobs, and 423 of its residents work somewhere. Only 6% stay in Crescent for work; outside it, Oklahoma City is the main destination (30%, 34 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Crescent in brief
Crescent and Oklahoma City trade workers both ways
Oklahoma City is the top workplace for Crescent residents (30%) and also where the most people who work in Crescent come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Crescent than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Crescent fell from 328 in 2013 to 236 in 2023, −28%. 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 ↓
Crescent workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 28 minutes each way, against 22 across Oklahoma. Over a year that’s about 215 hours of commuting, 46 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 423 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Crescent
On income, poverty and job access, Crescent is better than 10% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Crescent’s grade up ($62,813, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.8%) is left out: Crescent’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, Crescent could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Where Crescent goes to work
Where Crescent clocks in
30% of workers
7% 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.
Crescent makes things: 37% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crescent, 2013 → 2023: 328 → 236. 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 Crescent’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Crescent: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crescent workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 697 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.
A workday in Crescent: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 399 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 212 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Crescent on a workday afternoon, 13% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Crescent
About 18% 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 trips from Crescent start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crescent is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Crescent 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 739 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). 8.5% of Crescent households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Crescent’s commuters take a bus or train.
Crescent places 4,809th of 5,877 on jobs and income among 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 4,807 | Toledo IL | 1,140 | $56K | 18.1% | 1.0% | 10% | D |
| 4,808 | Glasgow MO | 1,080 | $50K | 11.9% | 3.1% | 15% | D |
| 4,809 | Crescent OK | 1,429 | $63K | 19.3% | 4.8% | 6% | D |
| 4,810 | Lexington TX | 1,342 | $56K | 15.6% | 10.9% | 3% | D |
| 4,811 | Hodgdon ME | 1,296 | $55K | 12.1% | 1.5% | 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 Crescent, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
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 Crescent: questions
What is the median household income in Crescent?
$62,813 (±$13,520) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crescent?
19.3%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crescent?
28 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crescent work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oklahoma City (30%, 34 mi), Guthrie (8%, 12 mi), Stillwater (7%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crescent walkable?
Crescent is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crescent without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crescent, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crescent
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.