With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Moyers works elsewhere
Home is the office for 43% of workers (Oklahoma 9%). Moyers has 3 jobs for 19 working residents. Hardly any work in Moyers; the top destination outside it is Antlers (32%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Moyers, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 19 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 44 people are in Moyers on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
The places Moyers commutes to
Where Moyers clocks in
32% of workers
11% of workers
11% 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.
100% of the jobs in Moyers pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Moyers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Moyers
of Moyers workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8 commuters (the 43% 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 Moyers to work
About 37% 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.
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 Moyers: questions
What is the poverty rate in Moyers?
51.7%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Moyers work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Antlers (32%, 7 mi), Poteau (11%, 78 mi), Oklahoma City (11%, 132 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Moyers without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Moyers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moyers
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.