Erin Springs Mansion · Photo: Crimsonedge34 · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Lindsay are lower than in 85% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 16.0% of residents, against 15.3% across Oklahoma. The two grades for Lindsay are D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. About one in three work in Lindsay; the top destination outside it is Oklahoma City (7%, 44 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Lindsay
Jobs & income in Lindsay: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lindsay is better than 12% of U.S. towns, #91 of 131 in Oklahoma. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Lindsay’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lindsay could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Jobs in Lindsay: what the 1,240 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lindsay, 2013 → 2023: 1,667 → 1,240. 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 Lindsay’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Lindsay for work, and who comes in
On a workday 716 residents head out to work, 329 work right here, and 911 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 (1.19 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.
Commuting out of Lindsay: the destinations
Where Lindsay clocks in
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.
About 22 minutes to work from Lindsay
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lindsay workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,181 commuters (the 4% 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 distance from Lindsay 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.
Lindsay is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lindsay is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns, #94 of 131 in Oklahoma. Both inputs place Lindsay 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 1,235 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). 6.0% of Lindsay households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lindsay’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Lindsay ranks: 4,014th of 4,618 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 944 | Goldsby OK | 3,591 | $103K | 11.2% | 2.4% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,272 | Kiefer OK | 2,310 | $83K | 10.4% | 3.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,012 | Westville IL | 3,029 | $55K | 18.6% | 8.5% | 7% | D |
| 4,013 | Richwood LA | 3,834 | $32K | 39.1% | 9.1% | <1% | D |
| 4,014 | Lindsay OK | 2,929 | $52K | 16.0% | 6.1% | 31% | D |
| 4,015 | Eureka Springs AR | 2,258 | $38K | 12.2% | 3.3% | 39% | D |
| 4,016 | Johnston City IL | 3,313 | $42K | 17.9% | 8.3% | 8% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,618 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Lindsay, 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 Lindsay: questions
What is the median household income in Lindsay?
$52,000 (±$12,639) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lindsay?
16.0%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lindsay?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lindsay work?
31% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oklahoma City (7%, 44 mi), Norman (4%, 31 mi), Pauls Valley (3%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lindsay walkable?
Lindsay is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lindsay without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lindsay, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lindsay
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.