Joyce House · Photo: Robert Alan Bowlby · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Snyder are lower than in 95% of U.S. towns
Snyder grades D− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. 22.7% of residents live below the poverty line; Oklahoma has 15.3%. About one in seven stay in Snyder for work; outside it, Altus is the main destination (13%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Snyder stands out on work
What’s behind Snyder’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Snyder is better than 3% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Snyder’s grade.
Unemployment (2.6%) is left out: Snyder’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, Snyder could be anywhere from D− to D.
How many miles Snyder commutes
About 35% 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 daily flow of workers through Snyder
On a workday 323 residents head out to work, 46 work right here, and 167 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Snyder on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.58 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Snyder goes to work
Where Snyder clocks in
13% of workers
13% of workers
8% 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.
What Snyder’s employers do
213 jobs are based in Snyder.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Snyder, 2013 → 2023: 258 → 213. 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 Snyder’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 25 minutes in Snyder
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Snyder workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 358 commuters (the 11% 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.
Snyder is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Snyder is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.5% across Oklahoma, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 403 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). 2.6% of Snyder households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Snyder’s commuters take a bus or train.
Snyder and other 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 4,032 | Augusta KY | 1,099 | $51K | 24.1% | 6.9% | 18% | D− |
| 4,033 | Little Valley NY | 1,077 | $45K | 28.2% | 1.4% | 14% | D− |
| 4,034 | Snyder OK | 1,214 | $41K | 22.7% | 2.6% | 12% | D− |
| 4,035 | Iva SC | 1,209 | $25K | 39.3% | 8.7% | 7% | D− |
| 4,036 | Troy ME | 1,116 | $45K | 17.8% | 3.8% | 1% | 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 Snyder, 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 Snyder: questions
What is the median household income in Snyder?
$41,099 (±$1,805) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Snyder?
22.7%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Snyder?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Snyder work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Altus (13%, 20 mi), Lawton (13%, 30 mi), Oklahoma City (8%, 99 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Snyder walkable?
Snyder is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Snyder without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Snyder, from the people who make the trip.
More of Snyder
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.