Household incomes in Fairland trail those of 94% of U.S. towns
Only 4% work in Fairland; the top destination outside it is Miami (14%, 10 miles). 15.0% of residents are in poverty, against 15.3% across Oklahoma. Jobs and income earn Fairland D; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Fairland
On income, poverty and job access, Fairland is better than 6% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Fairland’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($42,625, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Fairland’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, Fairland could be anywhere from D− to D.
How many people are in Fairland by day
On a workday 386 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 147 people come in from elsewhere.
About 860 people are in Fairland on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.40 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 towns that employ Fairland’s residents
Where Fairland clocks in
14% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
162 jobs are based in Fairland.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fairland, 2013 → 2023: 234 → 162. 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 Fairland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Fairland, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fairland workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 393 commuters (the 3% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Fairland
About 26% 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 Fairland, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fairland is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Fairland 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 405 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). 7.3% of Fairland households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fairland’s commuters take a bus or train.
Fairland next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 3,329th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Forest Park OK | 1,035 | $104K | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 856 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,140 | Okarche OK | 1,196 | $94K | 11.8% | 0.8% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,327 | Lubec ME | 1,237 | $52K | 14.7% | 2.7% | 20% | D |
| 3,328 | McCaysville GA | 1,180 | $53K | 16.2% | 0.3% | 3% | D |
| 3,329 | Fairland OK | 1,100 | $43K | 15.0% | 5.0% | 4% | D |
| 3,330 | Wheeler TX | 1,431 | $56K | 18.0% | 4.3% | 27% | D |
| 3,331 | Stuart VA | 1,409 | $46K | 20.1% | 6.1% | 19% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Fairland, 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 Fairland: questions
What is the median household income in Fairland?
$42,625 (±$7,493) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fairland?
15.0%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fairland?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fairland work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Miami (14%, 10 mi), Grove (9%, 12 mi), Tulsa (7%, 73 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fairland walkable?
Fairland is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fairland without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fairland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fairland
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.