Photo: Interim81 · CC BY-SA 4.0Tishomingo’s household incomes are lower than in 96% of U.S. towns
36.7% of residents are in poverty, where Oklahoma as a whole has 15.3%. For jobs and income Tishomingo is better than 5% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (B+). About one in five work in Tishomingo itself; outside it, Ardmore draws the most (11%, 26 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Tishomingo in brief
Tishomingo trades workers with the towns around it
Tishomingo has about as many jobs (1,205) as working residents (1,213), but they are mostly different people: 940 residents leave for work each day while 932 people come in. Only 23% of the jobs in Tishomingo are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Tishomingo’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Tishomingo is Ardmore, 26 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (131) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Nearly all the work in Tishomingo is services
85% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 5% are in factories, building or farms. 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.
Why Tishomingo gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Job access by car holds Tishomingo’s grade up (ahead of 25% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tishomingo could be anywhere from D− to C−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Tishomingo
On a workday 940 residents head out to work, 273 work right here, and 932 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 (0.99 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.
Half of Tishomingo commutes less than 25 miles
About 26% 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.
Most jobs in Tishomingo are in services
1,205 jobs are based in Tishomingo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tishomingo, 2013 → 2023: 1,190 → 1,205. 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 Tishomingo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Out of Tishomingo to work: where people go
Where Tishomingo clocks in
11% of workers
6% 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.
Time on the road from Tishomingo: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tishomingo workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,033 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.
Driving is how Tishomingo gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.5% across Oklahoma, on an EPA index of 6.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,103 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). 13.5% of Tishomingo households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tishomingo’s commuters take a bus or train.
Tishomingo and other U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,200
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Nichols Hills OK | 3,864 | $208K | 2.8% | 0.3% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 954 | Goldsby OK | 3,591 | $103K | 11.2% | 2.4% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,288 | Kiefer OK | 2,310 | $83K | 10.4% | 3.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,305 | Windsor NC | 3,469 | $41K | 15.5% | 13.2% | 12% | D |
| 4,306 | New Boston OH | 2,206 | $23K | 31.0% | 9.7% | 6% | D |
| 4,307 | Tishomingo OK | 3,123 | $40K | 36.7% | 6.2% | 23% | D |
| 4,308 | Philippi WV | 2,846 | $46K | 29.5% | 8.1% | 21% | D |
| 4,309 | Croswell MI | 2,263 | $55K | 17.1% | 11.6% | 16% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,562 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Tishomingo, 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 Tishomingo: questions
What is the median household income in Tishomingo?
$40,052 (±$14,852) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tishomingo?
36.7%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tishomingo?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tishomingo work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ardmore (11%, 26 mi), Durant (6%, 24 mi), Oklahoma City (6%, 97 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tishomingo walkable?
Tishomingo is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tishomingo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tishomingo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tishomingo
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.