Guthrie Historic District · Photo: Steven C. Price · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Guthrie are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns
19.4% of residents live below the poverty line, where Oklahoma as a whole has 15.3%. Jobs and income earn Guthrie C−; getting around on foot earns it B+. About one in four work in Guthrie itself; outside it, Oklahoma City draws the most (35%, 29 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Guthrie, in a few figures
Guthrie trades workers with the towns around it
Guthrie has about as many jobs (5,121) as working residents (4,402), but they are mostly different people: 3,385 residents leave for work each day while 4,104 people come in. Only 20% of the jobs in Guthrie are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Guthrie and Oklahoma City trade workers both ways
Oklahoma City is the top workplace for Guthrie residents (35%) and also where the most people who work in Guthrie come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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.
Income, poverty and work: Guthrie’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Guthrie is better than 24% of U.S. towns, #65 of 131 in Oklahoma. Job access by car holds Guthrie’s grade up (ahead of 64% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Guthrie could be anywhere from D to B−.
Guthrie on a workday afternoon
On a workday 3,385 residents head out to work, 1,017 work right here, and 4,104 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.16 per resident).
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 Guthrie’s working residents head each day
Where Guthrie clocks in
35% 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.
What Guthrie’s employers do
5,121 jobs are based in Guthrie.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Guthrie, 2013 → 2023: 3,985 → 5,121. 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 Guthrie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Guthrie, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Guthrie workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,862 commuters (the 6% 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 Guthrie
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.
The commute in Guthrie is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Guthrie is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns, #45 of 131 in Oklahoma. Both inputs place Guthrie 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 5,182 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 Guthrie households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Guthrie’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Guthrie ranks: 1,980th of 2,354 U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 417 | Newcastle OK | 15,198 | $93K | 3.8% | 2.8% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 424 | Piedmont OK | 9,427 | $104K | 2.6% | 3.3% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 622 | Choctaw OK | 12,549 | $101K | 6.3% | 3.1% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,978 | New Square NY | 10,214 | $31K | 58.8% | 5.6% | 21% | C− |
| 1,979 | Weatherford OK | 12,005 | $55K | 20.3% | 6.2% | 42% | C− |
| 1,980 | Guthrie OK | 12,257 | $53K | 19.4% | 5.6% | 23% | C− |
| 1,981 | Bay St. Louis MS | 10,634 | $67K | 14.5% | 7.8% | 19% | C− |
| 1,982 | Harrison AR | 13,802 | $44K | 14.9% | 3.7% | 50% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Guthrie, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
The towns around Guthrie
The biggest share goes to Edmond (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Guthrie’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 Guthrie: questions
What is the median household income in Guthrie?
$53,457 (±$7,095) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Guthrie?
19.4%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Guthrie?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Guthrie work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oklahoma City (35%, 29 mi), Edmond (9%, 14 mi), Stillwater (3%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Guthrie walkable?
Guthrie is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Guthrie 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 Guthrie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Guthrie
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.