One-hundred-and-one Ranch · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0White Eagle has 2.1 jobs for every working resident: 319 people commute in to work
Working residents average 17 minutes each way; Oklahoma averages 22, the U.S. 26. There are 346 jobs in White Eagle, and 164 of its residents work somewhere. 0% of workers have no commute at all (Oklahoma 9%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of White Eagle on a workday
On a workday 137 residents head out to work and 27 work right here.
About 510 people are in White Eagle on a workday afternoon, 55% more 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 daily trip into White Eagle
Where White Eagle clocks in
32% of workers
10% of workers
4% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 32% of the jobs in White Eagle
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in White Eagle, 2013 → 2023: 297 → 346. 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 White Eagle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from White Eagle: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of White Eagle workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 133 commuters (the 0% 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.
How far White Eagle’s workers travel
About 24% 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.
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 White Eagle: questions
What is the median household income in White Eagle?
$41,667 (±$23,314) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in White Eagle?
39.0%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from White Eagle?
17 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in White Eagle work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ponca City (32%, 6 mi), Oklahoma City (10%, 84 mi), Stillwater (4%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around White Eagle without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from White Eagle, from the people who make the trip.
More of White Eagle
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.