Saints Cyril and Methodius Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church · Photo: Boplanman · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Hartshorne are lower than in 96% of U.S. towns
23.6% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 15.3% for Oklahoma as a whole. For jobs and income Hartshorne is near the bottom of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (A−). Working from home is the commute for 1% of workers, where Oklahoma as a whole has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Hartshorne
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Hartshorne
On income, poverty and job access, Hartshorne is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Hartshorne’s grade.
Unemployment (5.3%) is left out: Hartshorne’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hartshorne stays D−.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Hartshorne
About 42% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Hartshorne on a workday afternoon
On a workday 409 residents head out to work, 46 work right here, and 293 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.
0.75 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 2024, primary jobs.
25% of working residents work in McAlester
Where Hartshorne clocks in
25% 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.
What work there is in Hartshorne: 339 jobs
339 jobs are based in Hartshorne.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hartshorne, 2014 → 2024: 448 → 339. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hartshorne’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes each way, about the OK average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hartshorne workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 661 commuters (the 1% 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.
In Hartshorne, walking beats the bus
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 667 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). 12.6% of Hartshorne households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hartshorne’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500, and where Hartshorne sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 936 | Justice OK | 1,530 | $98K | 7.5% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,235 | Kiefer OK | 2,310 | $83K | 10.4% | 3.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,236 | Union City OK | 2,129 | $106K | 11.5% | 2.9% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,500 | Rolling Fork MS | 1,387 | $46K | 24.5% | 6.9% | 19% | D− |
| 5,501 | Antlers OK | 2,186 | $36K | 26.2% | 8.6% | 32% | D− |
| 5,502 | Hartshorne OK | 1,877 | $40K | 23.6% | 5.3% | 10% | D− |
| 5,503 | Mountain City TN | 2,490 | $39K | 34.1% | 6.6% | 23% | D− |
| 5,504 | South Bend WA | 1,790 | $45K | 24.2% | 7.8% | 17% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Hartshorne, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
Hartshorne and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Haileyville (2%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hartshorne workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hartshorne | – | D− | A− | 22 min | $39,630 |
| Haileyville | 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Haileyville: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hartshorne’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 2024, 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 Hartshorne: questions
What is the median household income in Hartshorne?
$39,630 (±$7,772) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hartshorne?
23.6%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hartshorne?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hartshorne work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are McAlester (25%, 13 mi), Oklahoma City (6%, 118 mi), Wilburton (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hartshorne walkable?
Hartshorne is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hartshorne without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hartshorne, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hartshorne
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.