Wright City draws 742 commuters a day, with 3.7 jobs for every working resident
2% of workers have no commute at all (Oklahoma 9%). Employers in Wright City report 756 jobs; 206 of its residents have a job. Only 7% work in Wright City itself; outside it, Broken Bow draws the most (11%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Wright City: the figures worth knowing
Wright City has far more jobs than workers
Wright City has 756 jobs, 3.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,100 people are in town, 92% more than the 600 who live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
84% of the jobs in Wright City are in trade, transport and utilities, against 17% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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; with 206 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How a workday changes Wright City
On a workday 192 residents head out to work and 14 work right here.
About 1,100 people are in Wright City on a workday afternoon, 92% 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.
What Wright City’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wright City, 2013 → 2023: 135 → 756. 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 Wright City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Wright City to work
About 36% 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.
The towns that send workers to Wright City
Where Wright City clocks in
11% 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.
Each way, about 27 minutes from Wright City
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wright City workers work from home, vs 9% across Oklahoma. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 187 commuters (the 2% 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 Wright City: questions
What is the median household income in Wright City?
$41,964 (±$13,475) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $65,039 across Oklahoma and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wright City?
19.9%, against 15.3% across Oklahoma and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wright City?
27 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Oklahoma and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wright City work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Broken Bow (11%, 15 mi), Hochatown (11%, 15 mi), Idabel (9%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wright City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wright City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wright City
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.