Pittsburg School and Gymnasium · Photo: 25or6to4 · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Pittsburg works elsewhere
Employers in Pittsburg report 35 jobs, and 61 of its residents work somewhere. Only 3% stay in Pittsburg for work; outside it, McAlester is the main destination (28%, 15 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 9% for Oklahoma as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Pittsburg by day
On a workday 59 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 33 people come in from elsewhere.
About 150 people are in Pittsburg 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.
The places Pittsburg commutes to
Where Pittsburg clocks in
28% of workers
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.
Services make up most of the work in Pittsburg
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Pittsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes each way for Pittsburg’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pittsburg workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 43 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.
The distance from Pittsburg to work
About 30% 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 Pittsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Pittsburg?
$27,750 (±$5,081) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pittsburg?
23.7%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pittsburg?
21 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pittsburg work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are McAlester (28%, 15 mi), Kiowa (7%, 3 mi), Poteau (7%, 74 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pittsburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pittsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pittsburg
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.