Most of Sunray commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
There are 64 jobs in Sunray; 292 of its residents have a job. Only 2% work in Sunray itself; outside it, Duncan draws the most (34%, 5 miles). 0% of workers work from home (Oklahoma 9%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Sunray: the figures worth knowing
Sunray and Duncan trade workers both ways
Duncan is the top workplace for Sunray residents (34%) and also where the most people who work in Sunray come from (33% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Sunray is a place people come home to
There are 64 jobs based in Sunray, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Sunray has about 630 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Sunray workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 9% across Oklahoma. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 292 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Sunray’s working residents head each day
Where Sunray clocks in
34% of workers
10% 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.
How many people are in Sunray by day
On a workday 286 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 58 people come in from elsewhere.
About 630 people are in Sunray on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
About 20 minutes each way, quicker than most of Oklahoma
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sunray workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 435 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.
Services make up most of the work in Sunray
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sunray, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 64. 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 Sunray’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Sunray’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Next door is work for 11% of Sunray
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Comanche. Darker towns draw more of Sunray’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 Sunray: questions
What is the poverty rate in Sunray?
19.2%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sunray?
20 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sunray work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Duncan (34%, 5 mi), Comanche (11%, 4 mi), Oklahoma City (10%, 77 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sunray without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sunray, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sunray
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.