Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Work means Ardmore for more than half of Dickson’s working residents
Home is the office for 2% of workers, against 9% across Oklahoma. For jobs and income Dickson is better than 42% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (C−). Measured by household income, Dickson is ahead of 58% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Dickson
More than half of Dickson works in Ardmore
300 working residents, 55%, have their main job in Ardmore, 7.6 miles away across the town line. That’s 28 times as many as work in Dickson itself. The commute map ↓
Dickson is a place people come home to
There are 135 jobs based in Dickson, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Dickson has about 960 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 543 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Dickson: the grade in detail
Household income holds Dickson’s grade up ($81,250, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.2%) is left out: Dickson’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, Dickson could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The places Dickson commutes to
Where Dickson clocks in
55% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Dickson
On a workday 534 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 126 people come in from elsewhere.
About 960 people are in Dickson on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer than live here.
0.25 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 135 jobs based in Dickson
135 jobs are based in Dickson.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dickson, 2013 → 2023: 132 → 135. 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 Dickson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Dickson takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dickson workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 572 commuters (the 2% 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.
Miles to work from Dickson
About 21% 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 Dickson, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.5% across Oklahoma, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 585 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). 1.4% of Dickson households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dickson’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Dickson is 2,349th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 74 | Forest Park OK | 1,035 | $104K | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 734 | Justice OK | 1,530 | $98K | 7.5% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,286 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,347 | Ulster Township PA | 1,296 | $76K | 8.0% | 4.3% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,348 | Young Township PA | 1,670 | $77K | 9.9% | 5.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,349 | Dickson OK | 1,363 | $81K | 11.1% | 1.2% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,350 | Terre Hill PA | 1,282 | $64K | 17.1% | 2.5% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,351 | Turtle Lake WI | 1,023 | $61K | 5.3% | 2.0% | 14% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Dickson, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
55% of Dickson works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Ardmore. Darker towns draw more of Dickson’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 Dickson: questions
What is the median household income in Dickson?
$81,250 (±$14,445) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dickson?
11.1%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dickson?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dickson work?
2% work in town.
Is Dickson walkable?
Dickson is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dickson without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dickson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dickson
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.