Photo: Yamauchi · CC BY-SA 3.0Kingfisher has lower unemployment (2.1%) than 83% of U.S. towns
Working residents average 20 minutes each way, where Oklahoma has 22 and the U.S. 26. Jobs and income earn Kingfisher C+; getting around on foot earns it A−. About one in three work in Kingfisher; the top destination outside it is Oklahoma City (17%, 35 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Kingfisher, in a few figures
Inside Kingfisher’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Kingfisher is better than 40% of U.S. towns, #36 of 131 in Oklahoma. Unemployment holds Kingfisher’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (17.1%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Kingfisher could be anywhere from C− to B.
The distance from Kingfisher to work
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.
Who leaves Kingfisher for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,540 residents head out to work, 715 work right here, and 1,767 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.10 per resident).
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 Kingfisher to work: where people go
Where Kingfisher clocks in
17% of workers
3% 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 Kingfisher: 2,482 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kingfisher, 2013 → 2023: 2,295 → 2,482. 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 Kingfisher’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Kingfisher: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kingfisher workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,550 commuters (the 5% 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 Kingfisher, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kingfisher is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns, #18 of 131 in Oklahoma. Both inputs place Kingfisher near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,678 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). 7.9% of Kingfisher households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kingfisher’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,364th of 3,696: where Kingfisher ranks among U.S. towns of 3,600 to 7,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Nichols Hills OK | 3,864 | $208K | 2.8% | 0.3% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 754 | Verdigris OK | 5,888 | $84K | 6.8% | 2.3% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,900 | McLoud OK | 4,564 | $63K | 18.0% | 1.5% | 6% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,362 | Edwardsville KS | 4,748 | $73K | 14.9% | 8.7% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,363 | Grafton ND | 4,023 | $63K | 14.4% | 0.8% | 53% | C+ |
| 2,364 | Kingfisher OK | 5,201 | $64K | 17.1% | 2.1% | 32% | C+ |
| 2,365 | Hudson TX | 5,328 | $46K | 11.9% | 2.6% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,366 | East End AR | 6,912 | $88K | 14.5% | 9.2% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,696 | 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 Kingfisher, 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 Kingfisher: questions
What is the median household income in Kingfisher?
$64,271 (±$13,597) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kingfisher?
17.1%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kingfisher?
20 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kingfisher work?
32% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oklahoma City (17%, 35 mi), El Reno (3%, 21 mi), Edmond (3%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kingfisher walkable?
Kingfisher is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kingfisher 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 Kingfisher, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kingfisher
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.