With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Norwood works elsewhere
Hardly any work in Norwood; the top destination outside it is Muskogee (25%, 13 miles). 41 jobs are based in Norwood for 666 working residents. Norwood grades B− for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Norwood apart on work
Norwood is a place people come home to
There are 41 jobs based in Norwood, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Norwood has about 1,100 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Norwood and Muskogee trade workers both ways
Muskogee is the top workplace for Norwood residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Norwood come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 666 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Norwood’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Norwood is better than 48% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Norwood’s grade up ($88,661, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Norwood’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Norwood could be anywhere from C to B+.
In and out of Norwood on a workday
On a workday 664 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 39 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Norwood on a workday afternoon, 36% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Norwood: the destinations
Where Norwood clocks in
25% 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.
What Norwood’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Norwood, 2014 → 2024: 47 → 41. 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 Norwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Norwood, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Norwood workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 721 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.
Miles to work from Norwood
About 23% 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.
In Norwood, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Norwood is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Norwood near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 748 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 Norwood households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Norwood’s commuters take a bus or train.
Norwood is 2,423rd of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 970 | Justice OK | 1,530 | $98K | 7.5% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,278 | Kiefer OK | 2,310 | $83K | 10.4% | 3.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,279 | Union City OK | 2,129 | $106K | 11.5% | 2.9% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,421 | Independence Township KS | 2,165 | $76K | 7.1% | 4.0% | 8% | B− |
| 2,422 | Bridge Creek WI | 2,191 | $83K | 12.8% | 2.7% | 6% | B− |
| 2,423 | Norwood OK | 1,752 | $89K | 8.2% | 0.0% | <1% | B− |
| 2,424 | Ray Township IN | 1,627 | $87K | 12.9% | 5.3% | 4% | B− |
| 2,425 | Nicholson Township PA | 1,245 | $73K | 6.4% | 1.3% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Norwood, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
Around Norwood: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Norwood’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 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 Norwood: questions
What is the median household income in Norwood?
$88,661 (±$13,646) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Norwood?
8.2%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Norwood?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Norwood work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Muskogee (25%, 13 mi), Tulsa (11%, 46 mi), Fort Gibson (10%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Norwood walkable?
Norwood is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Norwood 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 Norwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Norwood
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.