Stroud Trading Company Building · Photo: Melodibit · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Stroud are lower than in 72% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Stroud is better than 11% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (B). Below the poverty line: 24.0% of residents, where Oklahoma as a whole has 15.3%. About one in five work in Stroud; the top destination outside it is Oklahoma City (15%, 53 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Stroud apart on work
Stroud’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Stroud is Oklahoma City, 53 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (163) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Stroud trades workers with the towns around it
Stroud has about as many jobs (1,190) as working residents (1,060), but they are mostly different people: 837 residents leave for work each day while 967 people come in. Only 19% of the jobs in Stroud are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Stroud than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Stroud fell from 1,578 in 2013 to 1,190 in 2023, −25%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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.
Income, poverty and work: Stroud’s grade explained
Unemployment holds Stroud’s grade up (5.4%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Stroud could be anywhere from D− to C.
How far Stroud goes to work
About 29% 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.
Who leaves Stroud for work, and who comes in
On a workday 837 residents head out to work, 223 work right here, and 967 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 (1.12 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.
What the 1,190 jobs in Stroud are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stroud, 2013 → 2023: 1,578 → 1,190. 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 Stroud’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The places Stroud commutes to
Where Stroud clocks in
15% of workers
4% 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 daily trip from Stroud: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stroud workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,163 commuters (the 7% 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.
Most of Stroud commutes by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.6% 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 1,245 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). 7.7% of Stroud households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stroud’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Stroud ranks: 4,261st of 4,882 U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Nichols Hills OK | 3,864 | $208K | 2.8% | 0.3% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 986 | Goldsby OK | 3,591 | $103K | 11.2% | 2.4% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,337 | Kiefer OK | 2,310 | $83K | 10.4% | 3.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,259 | Icard NC | 2,153 | $45K | 18.4% | 13.9% | 4% | D |
| 4,260 | Houston MS | 3,670 | $44K | 26.2% | 4.5% | 34% | D |
| 4,261 | Stroud OK | 2,913 | $61K | 24.0% | 5.4% | 21% | D |
| 4,262 | Waynesburg PA | 3,631 | $54K | 15.1% | 9.2% | 12% | D |
| 4,263 | Sandoval Township IL | 2,140 | $55K | 20.2% | 5.2% | 6% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Stroud, 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 Stroud: questions
What is the median household income in Stroud?
$61,250 (±$8,284) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stroud?
24.0%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stroud?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stroud work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oklahoma City (15%, 53 mi), Chandler (5%, 11 mi), Cushing (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Stroud walkable?
Stroud is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stroud without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stroud, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stroud
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.