Peggs has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Peggs has 151 jobs for 278 working residents. Only 4% work in Peggs itself; outside it, Tahlequah draws the most (22%, 12 miles). Home is the office for 19% of workers (Oklahoma 9%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Peggs, in brief
Peggs workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 30 minutes each way, against 22 across Oklahoma. Over a year that’s about 230 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Home offices are common in Peggs
19% of Peggs workers work from home, against 9% across Oklahoma. Time on the road ↓
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; with 278 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
About 30 minutes each way, longer than most of Oklahoma
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Peggs workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 290 commuters (the 19% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Peggs
On a workday 268 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 141 people come in from elsewhere.
About 730 people are in Peggs on a workday afternoon, 15% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Peggs to work: where people go
Where Peggs clocks in
22% of workers
12% of workers
5% 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.
Goods, not services: 28% of the jobs in Peggs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Peggs, 2013 → 2023: 105 → 151. 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 Peggs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Peggs
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.
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 Peggs: questions
What is the median household income in Peggs?
$61,731 (±$25,365) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Peggs?
22.1%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Peggs?
30 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Peggs work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tahlequah (22%, 12 mi), Tulsa (12%, 47 mi), Muskogee (5%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Peggs 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 Peggs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Peggs
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.