With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Fair Oaks works elsewhere
There are 15 jobs in Fair Oaks for 77 working residents. Hardly any work in Fair Oaks itself; outside it, Tulsa draws the most (42%, 12 miles). For 50% of workers, the job is at home, where Oklahoma as a whole has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Fair Oaks on a workday
On a workday 77 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4 people are in Fair Oaks on a workday afternoon, 94% 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.
Commuting out of Fair Oaks: the destinations
Where Fair Oaks clocks in
42% of workers
17% of workers
5% 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.
What Fair Oaks’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fair Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 60 → 15. 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 Fair Oaks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes each way for Fair Oaks’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fair Oaks workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 27 commuters (the 50% 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.
Fair Oaks’ commute, mile by mile
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.
43% of Fair Oaks works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Tulsa. Darker towns draw more of Fair Oaks’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 Fair Oaks: questions
What is the median household income in Fair Oaks?
$61,202 (±$895) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fair Oaks?
12.5%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fair Oaks?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 50% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fair Oaks work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tulsa (42%, 12 mi), Broken Arrow (17%, 10 mi), Oklahoma City (5%, 113 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fair Oaks without a car?
0% 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 Fair Oaks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fair Oaks
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.