Meloy House · Photo: Melodibit · CC BY-SA 3.0Work means Oklahoma City for more than half of Mustang’s working residents
About one in ten work in Mustang itself; outside it, Oklahoma City draws the most (58%, 13 miles). Mustang grades B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. The average commute takes 26 minutes each way, where Oklahoma has 22 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Mustang, in a few figures
The four measures behind Mustang’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mustang is better than 64% of U.S. towns, #17 of 131 in Oklahoma. Job access by car holds Mustang’s grade up (ahead of 81% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mustang could be anywhere from B− to A−.
The places Mustang commutes to
Where Mustang clocks in
58% 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.
How a workday changes Mustang
On a workday 8,294 residents head out to work, 831 work right here, and 4,649 people come in from elsewhere.
About 21,000 people are in Mustang on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.60 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 5,480 jobs based in Mustang
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mustang, 2013 → 2023: 4,345 → 5,480. 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 Mustang’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way, longer than most of Oklahoma
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mustang workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9,108 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Mustang
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.
Driving is how Mustang gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mustang is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns, #99 of 131 in Oklahoma. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.5% across Oklahoma.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 10,480 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). 3.8% of Mustang households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mustang’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mustang next to U.S. towns of 17,000 to 33,000: 874th of 1,642 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 330 | Jenks OK | 28,175 | $111K | 6.8% | 2.6% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 471 | Bixby OK | 32,766 | $104K | 5.6% | 3.7% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 836 | Yukon OK | 27,615 | $75K | 8.8% | 4.0% | 10% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 872 | Cartersville GA | 25,349 | $84K | 12.4% | 2.7% | 19% | B |
| 873 | Center Township IN | 20,019 | $65K | 8.0% | 3.4% | 29% | B |
| 874 | Mustang OK | 24,571 | $88K | 8.0% | 5.7% | 9% | B |
| 875 | Star ID | 20,874 | $98K | 5.8% | 6.9% | 6% | B |
| 876 | Keene NH | 23,072 | $78K | 10.1% | 2.0% | 45% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,642 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Mustang, 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 Mustang: questions
What is the median household income in Mustang?
$87,844 (±$6,097) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mustang?
8.0%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mustang?
26 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mustang work?
9% work in town.
Is Mustang walkable?
Mustang is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mustang without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mustang, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mustang
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.