Work means Oklahoma City for about two in three of Warr Acres’ working residents
The two grades for Warr Acres are C+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Measured by household income, Warr Acres is behind 84% of U.S. towns. Only 5% work in Warr Acres itself; outside it, Oklahoma City draws the most (66%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Warr Acres apart on work
More than half of Warr Acres works in Oklahoma City
2,669 working residents, 66%, have their main job in Oklahoma City, 7.2 miles away. That’s 13 times as many as work in Warr Acres itself. The commute map ↓
Most Warr Acres residents work close to home
70% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Warr Acres is where the jobs are
Warr Acres has 6,251 jobs, 1.5 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Nearly all the work in Warr Acres is services
87% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 3% 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.
Income, poverty and work: Warr Acres’ grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Warr Acres is better than 43% of U.S. towns, #32 of 131 in Oklahoma. Job access by car holds Warr Acres’ grade up (ahead of 89% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($53,273, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Warr Acres could be anywhere from C to B+.
Where the people who work in Warr Acres live
Where Warr Acres clocks in
66% of workers
3% 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.
The commute from Warr Acres, by distance
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.
A workday in Warr Acres: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 3,867 residents head out to work, 193 work right here, and 6,058 people come in from elsewhere.
About 13,000 people are in Warr Acres on a workday afternoon, 21% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Warr Acres
6,251 jobs are based in Warr Acres.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Warr Acres, 2013 → 2023: 6,391 → 6,251. 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 Warr Acres’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Warr Acres: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Warr Acres workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,221 commuters (the 8% 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.
Few in Warr Acres walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Warr Acres is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #61 of 131 in Oklahoma. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.5% across Oklahoma.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,566 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 61% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 6% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 63% 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). 5.3% of Warr Acres households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Warr Acres’ commuters take a bus or train.
Warr Acres is 1,893rd of 2,878 U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 479 | Piedmont OK | 9,427 | $104K | 2.6% | 3.3% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 708 | Choctaw OK | 12,549 | $101K | 6.3% | 3.1% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 944 | Tuttle OK | 8,708 | $104K | 5.3% | 4.8% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,891 | University of Virginia VA | 9,065 | $53K | 23.8% | 10.9% | 22% | C+ |
| 1,892 | Gloucester City NJ | 11,643 | $65K | 19.5% | 5.4% | 9% | C+ |
| 1,893 | Warr Acres OK | 10,552 | $53K | 19.0% | 3.7% | 5% | C+ |
| 1,894 | Thomas Township MI | 11,900 | $80K | 10.6% | 6.6% | 6% | C+ |
| 1,895 | Lantana FL | 12,449 | $70K | 11.5% | 8.7% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Warr Acres, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
Around Warr Acres: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Bethany (3%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Warr Acres workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warr Acres | – | C+ | B | 22 min | $53,273 |
| Bethany | 3% | C | B+ | 21 min | $56,591 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Warr Acres’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 Warr Acres: questions
What is the median household income in Warr Acres?
$53,273 (±$12,454) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Warr Acres?
19.0%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Warr Acres?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Warr Acres work?
5% work in town.
Is Warr Acres walkable?
Warr Acres is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 12.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Warr Acres without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 6% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Warr Acres, from the people who make the trip.
More of Warr Acres
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.