Turley has lower household incomes than 95% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Turley C−; getting around on foot earns it C+. Poverty touches 21.9% of residents; Oklahoma has 15.3%. Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, next to 9% for Oklahoma as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Turley at work: what stands out
Nearly half of Turley works in Tulsa
448 working residents, 48%, have their main job in Tulsa, 9 miles away across the town line. That’s 16 times as many as work in Turley itself. The commute map ↓
Turley is a place people come home to
There are 255 jobs based in Turley, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Turley than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Turley fell from 385 in 2013 to 255 in 2023, −34%. 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; with 941 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Turley’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Turley is better than 16% of U.S. towns, #80 of 131 in Oklahoma. Job access by car holds Turley’s grade up (ahead of 80% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (10.2%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Turley could be anywhere from D to C.
48% of working residents work in Tulsa
Where Turley clocks in
48% 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.
Who commutes out of Turley, and who commutes in
On a workday 915 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 229 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Turley on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
0.27 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.
Making and building: 30% of jobs based in Turley
255 jobs are based in Turley.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Turley, 2013 → 2023: 385 → 255. 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 Turley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Turley: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Turley workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,058 commuters (the 3% 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.
Half of Turley commutes less than 11 miles
About 16% 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 commute in Turley is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Turley is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns, #97 of 131 in Oklahoma. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, the same share as 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 1,091 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 18% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 83% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.5% of Turley households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Turley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Turley is 3,812th among 4,618 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Nichols Hills OK | 3,864 | $208K | 2.8% | 0.3% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 944 | Goldsby OK | 3,591 | $103K | 11.2% | 2.4% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,272 | Kiefer OK | 2,310 | $83K | 10.4% | 3.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,810 | Crystal Township MI | 2,726 | $56K | 10.7% | 5.8% | 2% | C− |
| 3,811 | Mary Ann Township OH | 2,274 | $55K | 16.8% | 0.0% | 1% | C− |
| 3,812 | Turley OK | 2,968 | $42K | 21.9% | 10.2% | 3% | C− |
| 3,813 | Hoxie AR | 2,568 | $35K | 19.0% | 4.3% | 10% | C− |
| 3,814 | Oak Hill FL | 2,188 | $66K | 18.7% | 8.2% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,618 | 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 Turley, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
Work next door: 48% of Turley’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Tulsa. Darker towns draw more of Turley’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 Turley: questions
What is the median household income in Turley?
$42,298 (±$3,078) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Turley?
21.9%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Turley?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Turley work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tulsa (48%, 9 mi), Oklahoma City (6%, 102 mi), Broken Arrow (6%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Turley walkable?
Turley is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Turley without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Turley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Turley
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.