Photo: Cleome Serrulata · CC BY-SA 4.0Granite’s household incomes are lower than in 74% of U.S. towns
Granite grades D for jobs and income and D for walkability. Below the poverty line: 12.7% of residents, next to 15.3% for Oklahoma as a whole. About one in seven stay in Granite for work; outside it, Oklahoma City is the main destination (13%, 111 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Granite
Granite’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Granite is Oklahoma City, 111 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (42) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
52% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 315 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Granite’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Granite is better than 12% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Granite’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Granite’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, Granite could be anywhere from D to C.
Where in the region Granite works
About 52% 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.
Granite by day and by night
On a workday 277 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 192 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.73 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.
Where Granite goes to work
Where Granite clocks in
13% of workers
13% of workers
6% 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.
69% of the jobs in Granite pay over $3,333 a month
230 jobs are based in Granite.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Granite, 2013 → 2023: 247 → 230. 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 Granite’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Granite’s commute 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 Granite workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 320 commuters (the 7% 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.
Most of Granite commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.5% across Oklahoma, on an EPA index of 3.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 344 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). 6.6% of Granite households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Granite’s commuters take a bus or train.
Granite places 4,977th of 6,161 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 930 | Justice OK | 1,530 | $98K | 7.5% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,238 | Union City OK | 2,129 | $106K | 11.5% | 2.9% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,586 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,975 | Fairfield Bay AR | 2,198 | $57K | 11.4% | 4.0% | 20% | D |
| 4,976 | Zebulon GA | 1,358 | $50K | 24.3% | 11.0% | 7% | D |
| 4,977 | Granite OK | 1,609 | $60K | 12.7% | 5.0% | 12% | D |
| 4,978 | Rosebud TX | 1,344 | $45K | 17.0% | 0.0% | 5% | D |
| 4,979 | Buchanan VA | 1,212 | $54K | 17.9% | 6.6% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Granite, 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 Granite: questions
What is the median household income in Granite?
$60,000 (±$4,171) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Granite?
12.7%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Granite?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Granite work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oklahoma City (13%, 111 mi), Altus (13%, 21 mi), Mangum (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Granite walkable?
Granite is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Granite 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 Granite, from the people who make the trip.
More of Granite
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.