Fox Hotel · Photo: 25or6to4 · CC BY-SA 4.0Laverne has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
There are 262 jobs in Laverne, against 519 working residents. For jobs and income Laverne is better than 4% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (D). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 9% across Oklahoma.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Laverne and work: the main findings
A big share show a job far from home
44% 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 ↓
Laverne’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Laverne is Woodward, 34 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (40) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Few Laverne workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 9% across Oklahoma. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 519 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Laverne’s grade
Household income holds Laverne’s grade up ($60,694, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.8%) is left out: Laverne’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Laverne could be anywhere from D− to D.
Half of Laverne commutes less than 35 miles
About 44% 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.
Getting to work from Laverne takes about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Laverne workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 401 commuters (the 0% 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.
Laverne on a workday afternoon
On a workday 415 residents head out to work, 104 work right here, and 158 people come in from elsewhere.
About 930 people are in Laverne 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.
8% of working residents work in Woodward
Where Laverne clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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 Laverne’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Laverne, 2013 → 2023: 332 → 262. 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 Laverne’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Laverne walk, bike or ride to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.5% across Oklahoma.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 401 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). 0.0% of Laverne households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Laverne’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, and where Laverne sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Forest Park OK | 1,035 | $104K | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 564 | Justice OK | 1,530 | $98K | 7.5% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 996 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,982 | Beaverton MI | 1,217 | $30K | 18.2% | 1.5% | 8% | D− |
| 3,983 | Edmore MI | 1,274 | $54K | 32.2% | 2.7% | 9% | D− |
| 3,984 | Laverne OK | 1,189 | $61K | 27.3% | 4.8% | 20% | D− |
| 3,985 | Griggsville Township IL | 1,240 | $44K | 20.4% | 3.8% | 9% | D− |
| 3,986 | Liberty Township IN | 1,520 | $54K | 35.0% | 17.7% | 5% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Laverne, 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 Laverne: questions
What is the median household income in Laverne?
$60,694 (±$9,080) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Laverne?
27.3%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Laverne?
19 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Laverne work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Woodward (8%, 34 mi), Oklahoma City (7%, 158 mi), Wichita (3%, 156 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Laverne walkable?
Laverne is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Laverne 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 Laverne, from the people who make the trip.
More of Laverne
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.