How Mounds works: jobs, income and commuting
Only 3% stay in Mounds for work; outside it, Tulsa is the main destination (33%, 20 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 20 minutes, where Oklahoma has 22 and the U.S. 26. Employers in Mounds report 331 jobs for 410 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mounds at work: what stands out
The towns that employ Mounds’ residents
Where Mounds clocks in
33% of workers
8% 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.
Who commutes out of Mounds, and who commutes in
On a workday 397 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 318 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 (0.81 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.
What Mounds’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mounds, 2013 → 2023: 142 → 331. 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 Mounds’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Mounds: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mounds workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 309 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Mounds
About 20% 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.
How Mounds compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Sapulpa (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Mounds’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 Mounds: questions
What is the median household income in Mounds?
$30,375 (±$10,499) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mounds?
25.5%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mounds?
20 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mounds work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tulsa (33%, 20 mi), Oklahoma City (8%, 86 mi), Sapulpa (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mounds without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mounds, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mounds
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.