Photo: JB Lamb · CC BY-SA 3.0Verdigris has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Only 2% stay in Verdigris for work; outside it, Tulsa is the main destination (39%, 16 miles). There are 425 jobs in Verdigris for 2,499 working residents. Jobs and income earn Verdigris A−; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Verdigris in brief
39% of Verdigris works in Tulsa
983 working residents, 39%, have their main job in Tulsa, 16 miles away. That’s 20 times as many as work in Verdigris itself. The commute map ↓
Verdigris is a place people come home to
There are 425 jobs based in Verdigris, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Verdigris has about 3,800 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Verdigris makes and builds things
43% of the jobs based in Verdigris are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Verdigris residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. 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.
Jobs & income in Verdigris: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Verdigris is better than 82% of U.S. towns, #8 of 131 in Oklahoma. Unemployment is its strongest input (2.3%, U.S. 5.2%); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($84,259, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Verdigris could be anywhere from B to A+.
Where Verdigris goes to work
Where Verdigris clocks in
39% of workers
11% 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.
How many people are in Verdigris by day
On a workday 2,461 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 387 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,800 people are in Verdigris on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Verdigris works in goods: 43% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Verdigris, 2013 → 2023: 251 → 425. 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 Verdigris’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Verdigris: about 23 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Verdigris workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,682 commuters (the 12% 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.
Where in the region Verdigris works
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.
In Verdigris, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Verdigris is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns, #112 of 131 in Oklahoma. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.5% across Oklahoma, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,065 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). 2.2% of Verdigris households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Verdigris’ commuters take a bus or train.
Verdigris is 717th of 3,432 U.S. towns of 4,100 to 7,900 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 715 | Union Vale NY | 4,590 | $103K | 7.7% | 1.1% | 4% | A− |
| 716 | Helena Valley Northeast MT | 4,659 | $141K | 5.2% | 1.3% | 2% | A− |
| 717 | Verdigris OK | 5,888 | $84K | 6.8% | 2.3% | 2% | A− |
| 718 | Placitas NM | 4,223 | $110K | 3.2% | 3.5% | 3% | A− |
| 719 | Lindstrom MN | 5,039 | $98K | 6.5% | 2.8% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,038 | Noble OK | 7,748 | $82K | 10.8% | 1.2% | 10% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,407 | Harrah OK | 7,212 | $84K | 10.8% | 3.3% | 7% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,790 | McLoud OK | 4,564 | $63K | 18.0% | 1.5% | 6% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,432 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | 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 Verdigris, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
Work next door: 11% of Verdigris’ workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Claremore. Darker towns draw more of Verdigris’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 Verdigris: questions
What is the median household income in Verdigris?
$84,259 (±$13,932) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Verdigris?
6.8%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Verdigris?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Verdigris work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tulsa (39%, 16 mi), Claremore (11%, 5 mi), Oklahoma City (6%, 117 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Verdigris walkable?
Verdigris is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Verdigris without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Verdigris, from the people who make the trip.
More of Verdigris
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.