With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Toppers works elsewhere
Employers in Toppers report 6 jobs, and 326 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Toppers D; getting around on foot earns it D−. Measured by household income, Toppers is behind 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Toppers
Toppers is a place people come home to
There are 6 jobs based in Toppers, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Toppers has about 710 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Toppers and Wagoner trade workers both ways
Wagoner is the top workplace for Toppers residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Toppers come from (50% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Toppers workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 22 across Oklahoma. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 92 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 326 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Toppers
On income, poverty and job access, Toppers is better than 14% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Toppers’ grade up (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (23.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (7.6%) is left out: Toppers’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, Toppers could be anywhere from D to C.
The workday shuffle in and out of Toppers
On a workday 326 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Toppers on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
21% of working residents work in Wagoner
Where Toppers clocks in
21% of workers
18% of workers
14% 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 long Toppers spends getting to work: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Toppers workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 347 commuters (the 2% 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.
The kinds of work in Toppers
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Toppers, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 6. 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 Toppers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Toppers
About 15% 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 of Toppers commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Toppers is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Toppers near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 355 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). 0.2% of Toppers households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Toppers’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Toppers comes 2,361st on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
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| 37 | Forest Park OK | 1,035 | $104K | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 692 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 929 | Okarche OK | 1,196 | $94K | 11.8% | 0.8% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,359 | Greenbush Township MI | 1,317 | $63K | 12.1% | 4.2% | 3% | D |
| 2,360 | Elk Township MI | 1,025 | $56K | 9.9% | 4.6% | 1% | D |
| 2,361 | Toppers OK | 1,029 | $52K | 23.4% | 7.6% | 0% | D |
| 2,362 | Arapahoe WY | 1,240 | $70K | 18.1% | 12.3% | 17% | D |
| 2,363 | Auxvasse MO | 1,029 | $56K | 29.8% | 8.1% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Toppers, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
How Toppers compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Toppers workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toppers | – | D | D− | 34 min | $52,431 |
| Taylor Ferry | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Whitehorn Cove | under 2% | C | D− | 46 min | $68,458 |
Same-state neighbors only. Taylor Ferry: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Toppers’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 Toppers: questions
What is the median household income in Toppers?
$52,431 (±$11,902) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Toppers?
23.4%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Toppers?
34 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Toppers work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wagoner (21%, 3 mi), Tulsa (18%, 34 mi), Muskogee (14%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Toppers walkable?
Toppers is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Toppers without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Toppers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Toppers
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.