Davis Santa Fe Depot · Photo: Matthew Zisi · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Davis are lower than in 86% of U.S. towns
About one in seven work in Davis; the top destination outside it is Ardmore (12%, 16 miles). 18.3% of residents are in poverty; Oklahoma has 15.3%. Jobs and income earn Davis D; getting around on foot earns it B.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Davis
Davis makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Davis are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Davis residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 21%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% 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 ↓
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.
Where Davis’ Jobs & income grade comes from
Unemployment holds Davis’ grade up (5.6%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($51,875, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Davis could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Goods jobs make up 35% of work in Davis
922 jobs are based in Davis.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Davis, 2013 → 2023: 1,027 → 922. 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 Davis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Davis to work
About 33% 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.
In and out of Davis on a workday
On a workday 973 residents head out to work, 165 work right here, and 757 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 (0.81 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 Davis commutes to
Where Davis clocks in
12% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
Getting to work from Davis takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Davis workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,117 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 Davis walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Davis is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns, #57 of 131 in Oklahoma. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.2% of 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 1,163 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). 6.3% of Davis households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Davis’ commuters take a bus or train.
Davis places 4,081st of 4,703 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 935 | Goldsby OK | 3,591 | $103K | 11.2% | 2.4% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,277 | Kiefer OK | 2,310 | $83K | 10.4% | 3.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,278 | Union City OK | 2,129 | $106K | 11.5% | 2.9% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,079 | Bloomfield IN | 2,306 | $55K | 12.2% | 9.2% | 16% | D |
| 4,080 | Phillipsburg KS | 2,225 | $61K | 14.5% | 4.5% | 40% | D |
| 4,081 | Davis OK | 2,836 | $52K | 18.3% | 5.6% | 14% | D |
| 4,082 | Sky Valley CA | 2,255 | $51K | 17.6% | 9.5% | 4% | D |
| 4,083 | Texanna OK | 2,401 | $51K | 10.6% | 5.2% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,703 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Davis, 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 Davis: questions
What is the median household income in Davis?
$51,875 (±$7,957) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Davis?
18.3%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Davis?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Davis work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ardmore (12%, 16 mi), Sulphur (8%, 12 mi), Oklahoma City (6%, 74 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Davis walkable?
Davis is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Davis without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Davis, from the people who make the trip.
More of Davis
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.