Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 3.0Making a living in New Cordell
For jobs and income New Cordell is better than 34% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (C−). About one in four work in New Cordell; the top destination outside it is Clinton (12%, 14 miles). Working residents average 21 minutes each way; Oklahoma averages 22, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Income, poverty and work: New Cordell’s grade explained
The poverty rate holds New Cordell’s grade up (10.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, New Cordell could be anywhere from D to B.
In and out of New Cordell on a workday
On a workday 757 residents head out to work, 286 work right here, and 506 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 (0.76 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Out of New Cordell to work: where people go
Where New Cordell clocks in
8% 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 work there is in New Cordell: 792 jobs
792 jobs are based in New Cordell.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Cordell, 2014 → 2024: 781 → 792. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs New Cordell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
New Cordell’s commute takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Cordell workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,031 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from New Cordell
About 29% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting around New Cordell: mostly by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 1,180 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). 4.9% of New Cordell households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of New Cordell’s commuters take a bus or train.
How New Cordell ranks: 3,151st of 4,969 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 958 | Goldsby OK | 3,591 | $103K | 11.2% | 2.4% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,314 | Kiefer OK | 2,310 | $83K | 10.4% | 3.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,315 | Union City OK | 2,129 | $106K | 11.5% | 2.9% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,149 | Phoenix NY | 2,192 | $59K | 16.1% | 5.7% | 7% | C |
| 3,150 | Fair Haven VT | 2,676 | $62K | 18.9% | 1.7% | 12% | C |
| 3,151 | New Cordell OK | 2,746 | $73K | 10.0% | 4.4% | 27% | C |
| 3,152 | Lebanon VA | 3,075 | $53K | 17.8% | 0.5% | 16% | C |
| 3,153 | Lancaster NH | 3,218 | $69K | 16.7% | 1.9% | 26% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,969 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 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 New Cordell, 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 2024, 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 New Cordell: questions
What is the median household income in New Cordell?
$73,107 (±$9,352) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Cordell?
10.0%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Cordell?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Cordell work?
27% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clinton (12%, 14 mi), Oklahoma City (8%, 84 mi), Weatherford (5%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is New Cordell walkable?
New Cordell is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Cordell 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 New Cordell, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Cordell
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.