Marland Filling Station · Photo: User:Dorkmo · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Hominy have lower incomes than those in 97% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Hominy D−; getting around on foot earns it B+. Below the poverty line: 27.1% of residents, where Oklahoma as a whole has 15.3%. About one in ten work in Hominy itself; outside it, Tulsa draws the most (18%, 34 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hominy and work: the main findings
Hominy’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Hominy is Tulsa, 34 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (168) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Hominy workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 22 across Oklahoma. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 100 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Hominy than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Hominy fell from 574 in 2013 to 394 in 2023, −31%. 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 ↓
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 939 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Hominy’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Hominy is near the bottom of U.S. towns, #130 of 131 in Oklahoma. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Hominy’s grade.
Unemployment (11.9%) is left out: Hominy’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, Hominy stays D−.
The distance from Hominy to work
About 23% 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.
About 35 minutes each way, longer than most of Oklahoma
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hominy workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 672 commuters (the 2% 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 394 jobs based in Hominy
394 jobs are based in Hominy.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hominy, 2013 → 2023: 574 → 394. 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 Hominy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Hominy
On a workday 837 residents head out to work, 102 work right here, and 292 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,700 people are in Hominy on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.42 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.
Out of Hominy to work: where people go
Where Hominy clocks in
18% of workers
8% 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.
Driving is how Hominy gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hominy is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns, #24 of 131 in Oklahoma. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.5% across Oklahoma, on an EPA index of 6.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 687 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 8.2% of Hominy households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hominy’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,400, and where Hominy sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Nichols Hills OK | 3,864 | $208K | 2.8% | 0.3% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 953 | Goldsby OK | 3,591 | $103K | 11.2% | 2.4% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,293 | Kiefer OK | 2,310 | $83K | 10.4% | 3.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,412 | Brinkley AR | 2,468 | $39K | 25.7% | 16.7% | 24% | D− |
| 4,413 | Flemingsburg KY | 3,005 | $35K | 34.3% | 20.5% | 24% | D− |
| 4,414 | Hominy OK | 3,293 | $37K | 27.1% | 11.9% | 11% | D− |
| 4,415 | Williamson WV | 2,753 | $22K | 49.1% | 13.6% | 22% | D− |
| 4,416 | Boron CA | 2,698 | $53K | 35.5% | 19.5% | 25% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,453 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Hominy, 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 Hominy: questions
What is the median household income in Hominy?
$37,193 (±$5,736) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hominy?
27.1%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hominy?
35 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hominy work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tulsa (18%, 34 mi), Pawhuska (8%, 17 mi), Oklahoma City (6%, 91 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hominy walkable?
Hominy is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hominy without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hominy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hominy
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.