Jim Thorpe House · Photo: Steven C. Price · CC BY-SA 3.0Work means Stillwater for about half of Ingalls’ working residents
The trip to work takes 22 minutes on average, next to 22 for Oklahoma and 26 for the U.S. Working from home is the commute for 24% of workers; Oklahoma has 9%. Hardly any stay in Ingalls for work; outside it, Stillwater is the main destination (48%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Ingalls on a workday afternoon
On a workday 87 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 150 people are in Ingalls on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
0.11 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.
The places Ingalls commutes to
Where Ingalls clocks in
48% of workers
9% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 100% of the jobs in Ingalls
10 jobs are based in Ingalls.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Ingalls’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Ingalls
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ingalls workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 80 commuters (the 25% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Ingalls
About 18% 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.
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 Ingalls: questions
What is the median household income in Ingalls?
$68,750 (±$61,952) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ingalls?
16.2%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ingalls?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ingalls work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Ingalls without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ingalls, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ingalls
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.