Science Building · Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 3.0Family incomes in Weatherford trail those of 70% of U.S. towns
About two in five work in Weatherford; the top destination outside it is Oklahoma City (8%, 66 miles). Not counting college students, poverty touches 12.0% of residents, against 14.6% across Oklahoma. Weatherford grades C− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Weatherford apart
Weatherford’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Weatherford is Oklahoma City, 66 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (312) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Weatherford are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 22 across Oklahoma. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Oklahoma worker. Time on the road ↓
A young workforce
31% of Weatherford’s working residents are 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Weatherford
On family income, poverty and job access, Weatherford is better than 24% of U.S. towns, #64 of 131 in Oklahoma. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Weatherford’s grade.
21% of Weatherford’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (16% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 12.0%, against 20.3% for all residents. Unemployment (6.2%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($78,297), since student households pull the household median down ($54,704).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Weatherford could be anywhere from D to C+.
How many miles Weatherford commutes
About 28% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 16 minutes each way for Weatherford’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Weatherford workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,196 commuters (the 4% 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 work there is in Weatherford: 4,859 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Weatherford, 2014 → 2024: 5,493 → 4,859. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Weatherford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Weatherford
On a workday 2,292 residents head out to work, 1,662 work right here, and 3,197 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.23 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Weatherford ends
Where Weatherford clocks in
8% 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.
Driving is how Weatherford gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Weatherford is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns, #31 of 131 in Oklahoma. Both inputs place Weatherford 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 6,425 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). 3.8% of Weatherford households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Weatherford’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 2,695 U.S. towns of 8,000 to 16,000, Weatherford comes 2,239th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 472 | Newcastle OK | 15,198 | $93K | 3.8% | 2.8% | 9% | 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− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,237 | Wagoner OK | 8,405 | $58K | 16.1% | 6.1% | 20% | C− |
| 2,238 | New Square NY | 10,214 | $31K | 58.8% | 5.6% | 24% | C− |
| 2,239 | Weatherford OK | 12,005 | $55K | 20.3% | 6.2% | 42% | C− |
| 2,240 | Guthrie OK | 12,257 | $53K | 19.4% | 5.6% | 23% | C− |
| 2,241 | Bay St. Louis MS | 10,634 | $67K | 14.5% | 7.8% | 20% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,695 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 19% | 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 Weatherford, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Students. 21% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Weatherford: questions
What is the median household income in Weatherford?
$54,704 (±$7,693) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Weatherford?
20.3% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 12.0%. Oklahoma: 15.3%.
How long is the commute from Weatherford?
16 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Weatherford work?
42% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oklahoma City (8%, 66 mi), Clinton (6%, 16 mi), Elk City (3%, 43 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Weatherford walkable?
Weatherford is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Weatherford without a car?
<1% 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 Weatherford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Weatherford
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.