Woodall has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income D: better than 8% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B−: more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 76% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 25 minutes each way (Oklahoma 22, U.S. 26). Only 1% work in Woodall; the top destination outside it is Tahlequah (27%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Woodall
What’s behind Woodall’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Woodall is better than 8% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Woodall’s grade.
Unemployment (12.7%) is left out: Woodall’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Woodall could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Woodall quiets down on a workday
On a workday 311 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 78 people come in from elsewhere.
About 820 people are in Woodall on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.26 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
27% of working residents work in Tahlequah
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Woodall clocks in
27% of workers
13% of workers
10% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What the 80 jobs in Woodall are
80 jobs are based in Woodall. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Woodall’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Woodall, 2013 → 2023: 49 → 80. 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.
About 25 minutes each way, longer than most of Oklahoma
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Woodall workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 330 commuters (the 14% who work from home are left out). Across Oklahoma: 85% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Woodall commutes less than 20 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 26% 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.
Most trips from Woodall start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Woodall is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.5% across Oklahoma, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 385 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). 5.9% of Woodall households have no vehicle (Oklahoma 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Woodall’s commuters take a bus or train.
Woodall is 2,675th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Woodall, the top three, the last and three more from Oklahoma.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Forest Park OK | 1,035 | $104K | 0.4% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 692 | Oologah OK | 1,358 | $80K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 929 | Okarche OK | 1,196 | $94K | 11.8% | 0.8% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,673 | Penn Township IN | 1,113 | $39K | 17.3% | 2.2% | 1% | D |
| 2,674 | Circle City AZ | 1,089 | $42K | 14.3% | 4.8% | 0% | D |
| 2,675 | Woodall OK | 1,050 | $59K | 19.0% | 12.7% | 1% | D |
| 2,676 | Munford AL | 1,371 | $42K | 19.8% | 7.9% | 1% | D |
| 2,677 | Harrisville Township MI | 1,355 | $54K | 13.9% | 4.3% | 5% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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.
Woodall and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Park Hill (3%). Darker towns draw more of Woodall’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Woodall workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodall | – | D | B− | 25 min | $58,571 |
| Zeb | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Norwood | under 2% | B− | D | 25 min | $88,661 |
| Park Hill | 3% | D | C+ | 23 min | $47,064 |
Same-state neighbors only. Zeb: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Woodall: questions
What is the median household income in Woodall?
$58,571 (±$23,138) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Woodall?
19.0%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Woodall?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Woodall work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tahlequah (27%, 8 mi), Muskogee (13%, 16 mi), Tulsa (10%, 50 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Woodall walkable?
Woodall is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Woodall without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Woodall, from the people who make the trip.
More of Woodall
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.