Photo: Brody Schmidt · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Jet works elsewhere
A typical one-way commute lasts 56 minutes (Oklahoma 22, U.S. 26). Jet has 11 jobs, against 102 working residents. Hardly any work in Jet itself; outside it, Cherokee draws the most (16%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Jet
On a workday 101 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 100 people are in Jet on a workday afternoon, 47% 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.
The places Jet commutes to
Where Jet clocks in
16% of workers
9% 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.
In Jet, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jet, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 11. 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 Jet’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Jet, about 56 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 17.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jet workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 61 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.
Jet’s commute, mile by mile
About 50% 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 Jet: questions
What is the median household income in Jet?
$56,531 (±$5,224) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jet?
13.0%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jet?
56 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jet work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cherokee (16%, 11 mi), Oklahoma City (9%, 91 mi), Alva (7%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Jet without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jet, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jet
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.