Deer Creek General Merchandise Store · Photo: BeccaDawn88 · CC BY-SA 4.0Deer Creek draws 76 commuters a day, with 1.9 jobs for every working resident
For 0% of workers, the job is at home, next to 9% for Oklahoma as a whole. Deer Creek has 78 jobs, and 40 of its residents work somewhere. Only 5% work in Deer Creek; the top destination outside it is Medford (18%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Deer Creek for work, and who comes in
On a workday 38 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
About 120 people are in Deer Creek on a workday afternoon, 49% more than live here.
2.0 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Who travels to work in Deer Creek, and from where
Where Deer Creek clocks in
18% of workers
10% 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.
Deer Creek makes things: 95% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deer Creek, 2014 → 2024: 94 → 78. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Deer Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Deer Creek: about 43 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Deer Creek workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9 commuters (the 0% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Deer Creek
About 43% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Deer Creek workers work outside Oklahoma. The job records count 13% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Deer Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Deer Creek?
$56,000 (±$16,974) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Deer Creek?
0.0%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Deer Creek?
43 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Deer Creek work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Medford (18%, 12 mi), Oklahoma City (10%, 93 mi), Caldwell (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Deer Creek without a car?
11% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Deer Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deer Creek
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.