Fox Hotel · Photo: TulGuy · CC BY 4.0Skiatook has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
There are 2,006 jobs in Skiatook for 3,764 working residents. For jobs and income Skiatook is better than 41% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (C). Measured by household income, Skiatook is behind 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Skiatook: the figures worth knowing
Why Skiatook gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Job access by car holds Skiatook’s grade up (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($57,480, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Skiatook could be anywhere from C− to B.
35% of working residents work in Tulsa
Where Skiatook clocks in
35% 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.
Who commutes out of Skiatook, and who commutes in
On a workday 3,385 residents head out to work, 379 work right here, and 1,627 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,200 people are in Skiatook on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
What Skiatook’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Skiatook, 2013 → 2023: 2,231 → 2,006. 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 Skiatook’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes to work from Skiatook
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Skiatook workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,461 commuters (the 9% 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.
Skiatook’s commute, mile by mile
About 18% 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.
In Skiatook, most people drive to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.5% across Oklahoma.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,811 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). 4.9% of Skiatook households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Skiatook’s commuters take a bus or train.
Skiatook next to U.S. towns of 6,300 to 12,100: 1,934th of 2,862 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 476 | Piedmont OK | 9,427 | $104K | 2.6% | 3.3% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 923 | Tuttle OK | 8,708 | $104K | 5.3% | 4.8% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,020 | Noble OK | 7,748 | $82K | 10.8% | 1.2% | 10% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,932 | Marion Township OH | 6,619 | $65K | 10.2% | 3.9% | 16% | C+ |
| 1,933 | Waynesville NC | 11,006 | $55K | 15.9% | 1.9% | 23% | C+ |
| 1,934 | Skiatook OK | 8,960 | $57K | 13.4% | 3.9% | 10% | C+ |
| 1,935 | Dover NY | 8,419 | $92K | 11.4% | 5.9% | 13% | C+ |
| 1,936 | Edgemoor DE | 6,349 | $59K | 17.5% | 4.5% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,862 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Skiatook, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
Skiatook and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Skiatook’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Skiatook: questions
What is the median household income in Skiatook?
$57,480 (±$4,597) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Skiatook?
13.4%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Skiatook?
24 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Skiatook work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tulsa (35%, 15 mi), Oklahoma City (6%, 107 mi), Owasso (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Skiatook walkable?
Skiatook is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Skiatook without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Skiatook, from the people who make the trip.
More of Skiatook
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.