Photo: Smallboy944 · CC BY-SA 4.0Pauls Valley has lower household incomes than 87% of U.S. towns
About one in three stay in Pauls Valley for work; outside it, Oklahoma City is the main destination (7%, 55 miles). Poverty touches 24.4% of residents, where Oklahoma as a whole has 15.3%. For jobs and income Pauls Valley is better than 12% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Pauls Valley apart on work
The figures behind Pauls Valley’s Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Pauls Valley’s grade up (5.2%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pauls Valley could be anywhere from D to C.
Who commutes out of Pauls Valley, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,553 residents head out to work, 799 work right here, and 3,168 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,800 people are in Pauls Valley on a workday afternoon, 26% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Pauls Valley’s workers come from
Where Pauls Valley clocks in
7% 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 Pauls Valley: 3,967 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pauls Valley, 2014 → 2024: 3,928 → 3,967. 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 Pauls Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 23 minutes in Pauls Valley
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pauls Valley workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,429 commuters (the 3% 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.
How far it is to work from Pauls Valley
About 24% 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.
For most of Pauls Valley, work means a drive
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,516 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). 8.4% of Pauls Valley households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pauls Valley’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 4,300 to 8,300, and where Pauls Valley sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 718 | Verdigris OK | 5,888 | $84K | 6.8% | 2.3% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,037 | Noble OK | 7,748 | $82K | 10.8% | 1.2% | 10% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,407 | Harrah OK | 7,212 | $84K | 10.8% | 3.3% | 8% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,060 | Quincy FL | 8,162 | $32K | 42.7% | 4.1% | 13% | D |
| 3,061 | Canton NY | 6,894 | $62K | 19.8% | 6.5% | 29% | D |
| 3,062 | Pauls Valley OK | 6,157 | $50K | 24.4% | 5.2% | 34% | D |
| 3,063 | Livingston TX | 5,386 | $49K | 27.5% | 4.3% | 18% | D |
| 3,064 | Walnut Ridge AR | 5,478 | $45K | 25.6% | 5.0% | 26% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,370 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Pauls Valley, 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 Pauls Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Pauls Valley?
$50,357 (±$2,793) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pauls Valley?
24.4%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pauls Valley?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pauls Valley work?
34% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oklahoma City (7%, 55 mi), Norman (5%, 37 mi), Ada (4%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Pauls Valley walkable?
Pauls Valley is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pauls Valley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pauls Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pauls Valley
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.