Photo: DBinfo at English Wikipedia · Public domainPawhuska’s household incomes are lower than in 92% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 17.1% of residents (Oklahoma 15.3%). Jobs and income earn Pawhuska C−; getting around on foot earns it B+. About one in three work in Pawhuska itself; outside it, Tulsa draws the most (9%, 44 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Pawhuska at work: what stands out
Pawhuska’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Pawhuska is Tulsa, 44 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (100) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer than half of Pawhuska workers earn over $40,000 a year
43% of Pawhuska’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 20% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
What’s behind Pawhuska’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pawhuska is better than 19% of U.S. towns, #75 of 131 in Oklahoma. Unemployment holds Pawhuska’s grade up (3.0%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($46,298, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pawhuska could be anywhere from D to C+.
The distance from Pawhuska to work
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The kinds of work in Pawhuska
1,548 jobs are based in Pawhuska.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pawhuska, 2013 → 2023: 1,986 → 1,548. 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 Pawhuska’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Pawhuska for work, and who comes in
On a workday 723 residents head out to work, 422 work right here, and 1,126 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,300 people are in Pawhuska on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.35 per resident).
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 towns that employ Pawhuska’s residents
Where Pawhuska clocks in
9% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
About 18 minutes each way for Pawhuska’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pawhuska workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,163 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.
In Pawhuska, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pawhuska is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns, #25 of 131 in Oklahoma. Both inputs place Pawhuska 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 1,209 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 10.8% of Pawhuska households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pawhuska’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pawhuska places 3,881st of 4,882 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Nichols Hills OK | 3,864 | $208K | 2.8% | 0.3% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 986 | Goldsby OK | 3,591 | $103K | 11.2% | 2.4% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,337 | Kiefer OK | 2,310 | $83K | 10.4% | 3.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,879 | Port Hadlock-Irondale WA | 3,884 | $84K | 14.8% | 6.8% | 10% | C− |
| 3,880 | Madison IL | 3,063 | $49K | 26.4% | 16.0% | 5% | C− |
| 3,881 | Pawhuska OK | 2,923 | $46K | 17.1% | 3.0% | 37% | C− |
| 3,882 | Nixon TX | 2,406 | $38K | 18.1% | 2.6% | 22% | C− |
| 3,883 | West Tawakoni TX | 2,261 | $60K | 19.9% | 5.7% | <1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Pawhuska, 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 Pawhuska: questions
What is the median household income in Pawhuska?
$46,298 (±$12,887) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pawhuska?
17.1%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pawhuska?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pawhuska work?
37% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tulsa (9%, 44 mi), Bartlesville (7%, 22 mi), Oklahoma City (6%, 106 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pawhuska walkable?
Pawhuska is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pawhuska without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pawhuska, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pawhuska
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.