Shattuck National Bank Building · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0Shattuck has lower household incomes than 81% of U.S. towns
About one in four work in Shattuck itself; outside it, Woodward draws the most (10%, 28 miles). The poverty rate is 15.5% (Oklahoma 15.3%). For jobs and income Shattuck is better than 7% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Shattuck stands out on work
A big share show a job far from home
45% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Shattuck’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Shattuck is Woodward, 29 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (46) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Shattuck are quick
The average trip to work takes 14 minutes, against 22 across Oklahoma. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Oklahoma worker. 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 481 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Shattuck’s grade
The poverty rate holds Shattuck’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (8.3%) is left out: Shattuck’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Shattuck could be anywhere from D− to C−.
How many miles Shattuck commutes
About 45% 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 trip to work from Shattuck: about 14 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shattuck workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 422 commuters (the 6% 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 flow of workers through Shattuck
On a workday 366 residents head out to work, 115 work right here, and 411 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.09 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.
Out of Shattuck to work: where people go
Where Shattuck clocks in
10% 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.
The kinds of work in Shattuck
526 jobs are based in Shattuck.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shattuck, 2013 → 2023: 559 → 526. 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 Shattuck’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Shattuck walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 448 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). 5.7% of Shattuck households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shattuck’s commuters take a bus or train.
Shattuck places 3,730th of 4,312 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Forest Park OK | 1,035 | $104K | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 564 | Justice OK | 1,530 | $98K | 7.5% | 2.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 996 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,728 | Coventry VT | 1,059 | $59K | 19.6% | 20.2% | 5% | D |
| 3,729 | Snow Hill NC | 1,588 | $32K | 40.2% | 7.4% | 14% | D |
| 3,730 | Shattuck OK | 1,194 | $55K | 15.5% | 8.3% | 24% | D |
| 3,731 | East Machias ME | 1,341 | $58K | 15.9% | 6.7% | 12% | D |
| 3,732 | Nunda Township MI | 1,210 | $59K | 18.9% | 9.6% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Shattuck, 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 Shattuck: questions
What is the median household income in Shattuck?
$54,868 (±$7,925) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shattuck?
15.5%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shattuck?
14 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shattuck work?
24% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Woodward (10%, 28 mi), Oklahoma City (5%, 143 mi), Arnett (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shattuck walkable?
Shattuck is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shattuck without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shattuck, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shattuck
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.