Fort Cobb Site · Photo: Crimsonedge34 · CC BY-SA 3.0Making a living in Fort Cobb
About one in five work in Fort Cobb; the top destination outside it is Oklahoma City (12%, 58 miles). Home is the office for 3% of workers (Oklahoma 9%). The trip to work takes 32 minutes on average, next to 22 for Oklahoma and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Fort Cobb, and who commutes in
On a workday 137 residents head out to work, 35 work right here, and 244 people come in from elsewhere.
About 610 people are in Fort Cobb on a workday afternoon, 21% more than live here.
1.6 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Fort Cobb’s workforce comes from
Where Fort Cobb clocks in
12% of workers
6% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Fort Cobb
279 jobs are based in Fort Cobb.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fort Cobb, 2013 → 2023: 249 → 279. 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 Fort Cobb’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 32 minutes in Fort Cobb
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fort Cobb workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 133 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.
The distance from Fort Cobb 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.
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 Fort Cobb: questions
What is the median household income in Fort Cobb?
$48,000 (±$13,479) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fort Cobb?
33.9%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fort Cobb?
32 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fort Cobb work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oklahoma City (12%, 58 mi), Carnegie (6%, 9 mi), Anadarko (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fort Cobb without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fort Cobb, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fort Cobb
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.