Moodys has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
30 jobs are based in Moodys, against 304 working residents. For jobs and income Moodys is better than 5% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (B). Measured by household income, Moodys is behind 89% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Moodys stands out on work
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Moodys
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Moodys’ grade.
Unemployment (0.9%) is left out: Moodys’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Moodys could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Who works in Moodys, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 303 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 29 people come in from elsewhere.
About 830 people are in Moodys on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
27% of working residents work in Tahlequah
Where Moodys clocks in
27% of workers
12% 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.
What Moodys’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moodys, 2013 → 2023: 28 → 30. 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 Moodys’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Moodys spends getting to work: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moodys workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 434 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.
Half of Moodys commutes less than 28 miles
About 27% 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.
Few in Moodys walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 34.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.5% across Oklahoma, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 460 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 Moodys households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Moodys’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Moodys compares with U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
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| 48 | Forest Park OK | 1,035 | $104K | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 856 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,140 | Okarche OK | 1,196 | $94K | 11.8% | 0.8% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,400 | Bessemer Township MI | 1,124 | $56K | 20.4% | 8.3% | 3% | D− |
| 3,401 | Buel Township MI | 1,153 | $60K | 23.0% | 7.1% | 1% | D− |
| 3,402 | Moodys OK | 1,108 | $49K | 18.5% | 0.9% | <1% | D− |
| 3,403 | Alto Bonito Heights TX | 1,121 | $36K | 81.0% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
| 3,404 | Murfreesboro AR | 1,443 | $53K | 20.7% | 3.7% | 24% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Moodys, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
Moodys and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Moodys workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moodys | – | D− | B | 19 min | $49,355 |
| Steely Hollow | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Johnson Prairie | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Lowrey | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Steely Hollow, Johnson Prairie and Lowrey: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Moodys’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 Moodys: questions
What is the median household income in Moodys?
$49,355 (±$38,479) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moodys?
18.5%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moodys?
19 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moodys work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tahlequah (27%, 9 mi), Tulsa (12%, 53 mi), Muskogee (6%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moodys walkable?
Moodys is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 35% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moodys 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 Moodys, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moodys
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.