Pickett has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Pickett has 36 jobs; 300 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Pickett; the top destination outside it is Ada (37%, 6 miles). 0% of workers work from home; Oklahoma has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Pickett apart
Pickett and Ada trade workers both ways
Ada is the top workplace for Pickett residents (37%) and also where the most people who work in Pickett come from (31% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Pickett is a place people come home to
There are 36 jobs based in Pickett, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Pickett has about 630 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Pickett’s working residents have a job less than 8 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 33 minutes, longer than the Oklahoma average of 22. 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 300 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where people from Pickett work
Where Pickett 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Pickett
On a workday 299 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 35 people come in from elsewhere.
About 630 people are in Pickett on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
About 33 minutes to work from Pickett
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pickett workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 485 commuters (the 0% 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.
36% of the jobs in Pickett make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pickett, 2013 → 2023: 30 → 36. 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 Pickett’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Pickett to work
About 21% 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 Pickett: questions
What is the median household income in Pickett?
$101,500 (±$57,418) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pickett?
0.6%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pickett?
33 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pickett work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ada (37%, 6 mi), Oklahoma City (7%, 63 mi), Norman (2%, 45 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pickett without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pickett, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pickett
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.