Photo: Daisy Carp · CC BY-SA 4.0Healdton has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
Employers in Healdton report 650 jobs, and 1,156 of its residents work somewhere. Healdton grades D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Measured by household income, Healdton is behind 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Healdton
Fewer jobs are based in Healdton than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Healdton fell from 1,061 in 2013 to 650 in 2023, −39%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Healdton workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 28 minutes each way, against 22 across Oklahoma. Over a year that’s about 215 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% 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.
What’s behind Healdton’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Healdton is better than 8% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Healdton’s grade up (5.4%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (22.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Healdton could be anywhere from D− to C.
What Healdton’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Healdton, 2013 → 2023: 1,061 → 650. 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 Healdton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 28 minutes in Healdton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Healdton workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 951 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.
How many miles Healdton commutes
About 31% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Healdton
On a workday 980 residents head out to work, 176 work right here, and 474 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Healdton on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
26% of working residents work in Ardmore
Where Healdton clocks in
26% 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.
Most of Healdton commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Healdton is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.5% across Oklahoma, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 979 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). 8.4% of Healdton households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Healdton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Healdton next to U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,200: 4,921st of 5,552 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,357 | Kiefer OK | 2,310 | $83K | 10.4% | 3.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,358 | Union City OK | 2,129 | $106K | 11.5% | 2.9% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,437 | Calera OK | 3,145 | $64K | 15.7% | 1.0% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,919 | Dunnellon FL | 2,056 | $41K | 18.5% | 6.5% | 8% | D |
| 4,920 | Belmond IA | 2,420 | $57K | 19.8% | 4.1% | 27% | D |
| 4,921 | Healdton OK | 2,350 | $51K | 22.4% | 5.4% | 15% | D |
| 4,922 | Brasher NY | 2,570 | $54K | 22.4% | 4.8% | 5% | D |
| 4,923 | Springfield Township PA | 2,634 | $57K | 17.8% | 9.3% | 6% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,552 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Healdton, 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 Healdton: questions
What is the median household income in Healdton?
$51,286 (±$7,233) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Healdton?
22.4%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Healdton?
28 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Healdton work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ardmore (26%, 20 mi), Oklahoma City (5%, 85 mi), Ada (3%, 60 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Healdton walkable?
Healdton is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Healdton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Healdton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Healdton
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.