With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Wayne works elsewhere
Only 3% stay in Wayne for work; outside it, Oklahoma City is the main destination (23%, 40 miles). 130 jobs are based in Wayne, and 247 of its residents work somewhere. The average commute, 23 minutes each way, matches the Oklahoma norm.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wayne and work: the main findings
How far Wayne’s workers travel
About 17% 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.
In and out of Wayne on a workday
On a workday 240 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 123 people come in from elsewhere.
About 570 people are in Wayne on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
The places Wayne commutes to
Where Wayne clocks in
23% of workers
9% 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.
What Wayne’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wayne, 2013 → 2023: 102 → 130. 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 Wayne’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes to work from Wayne
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wayne workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 285 commuters (the 10% 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.
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 Wayne: questions
What is the median household income in Wayne?
$66,071 (±$16,706) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wayne?
28.7%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wayne?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wayne work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oklahoma City (23%, 40 mi), Purcell (9%, 8 mi), Norman (8%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wayne without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wayne, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wayne
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.