Minco Armory · Photo: Crimsonedge34 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Minco commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
About one in seven work in Minco; the top destination outside it is Oklahoma City (26%, 27 miles). 267 jobs are based in Minco, against 570 working residents. Jobs and income earn Minco C+; getting around on foot earns it B−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Minco in brief
How Minco earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Minco is better than 39% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Minco’s grade up (ahead of 57% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($61,000, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.8%) is left out: Minco’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, Minco could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Where in the region Minco works
About 19% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Minco
On a workday 496 residents head out to work, 74 work right here, and 193 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Minco on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
Where Minco’s working residents head each day
Where Minco clocks in
26% 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: 28% of the jobs in Minco
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Minco, 2013 → 2023: 303 → 267. 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 Minco’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way for Minco’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Minco workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 632 commuters (the 13% 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 Minco, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Minco is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.5% across Oklahoma, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 726 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). 3.4% of Minco households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Minco’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, Minco ranks 2,772nd of 5,794 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 859 | Justice OK | 1,530 | $98K | 7.5% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,475 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,931 | Okarche OK | 1,196 | $94K | 11.8% | 0.8% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,770 | Arcada Township MI | 1,640 | $89K | 12.9% | 3.1% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,771 | Nashua IA | 1,505 | $67K | 7.3% | 2.2% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,772 | Minco OK | 1,580 | $61K | 11.3% | 4.8% | 13% | C+ |
| 2,773 | Dover TN | 1,918 | $75K | 7.0% | 2.2% | 22% | C+ |
| 2,774 | Barnum Township MN | 1,127 | $88K | 13.1% | 5.3% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Minco, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
Next door to Minco
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Minco workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minco | – | C+ | B− | 24 min | $61,000 |
| Union City | under 2% | B+ | C | 27 min | $105,833 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Minco’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Minco: questions
What is the median household income in Minco?
$61,000 (±$22,376) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Minco?
11.3%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Minco?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Minco work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oklahoma City (26%, 27 mi), Chickasha (6%, 19 mi), El Reno (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Minco walkable?
Minco is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Minco without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Minco, from the people who make the trip.
More of Minco
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.