Work & commute · Beggs

Work & commute in Beggs, OK

Most working residents leave Beggs for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Tulsa (31%), Oklahoma City (5%) and Broken Arrow (4%). Half commute less than 26 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17 of 471 working residents

Typical commute

26 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 454 Beggs residents head out of town to work, 17 work right here, and 253 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Beggs.

454live here, work elsewhere

17live and work here

253work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Beggs goes to work

Tulsa28.2 mi away

31%147

Oklahoma City83.5 mi away

5%22

Broken Arrow25.9 mi away

4%19

Sapulpa18.4 mi away

4%18

Beggs (in town)right here

4%17

Jenks18.5 mi away

3%15

Bixby17.6 mi away

3%14

Okmulgee10.2 mi away

3%12

Glenpool14.8 mi away

2%10

Muskogee39.8 mi away

2%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%188

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Beggs commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

14%

33%

34%

19%

14%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

34%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Beggs is a commuter town

0.57jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.57 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Beggs are

270 jobs are based in Beggs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Beggs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Beggs

270 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month48%

Over $3,333 a month28%

Jobs Beggs residents hold

471 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month54%

−46%

Jobs based in Beggs, 2013 → 2023: 503 → 270. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.