Work & commute · Fort Cobb

Work & commute in Fort Cobb, OK

About one in 5 of Fort Cobb’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Oklahoma City (12%), Carnegie (6%) and Anadarko (5%). Half commute less than 27 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

20%

35 of 172 working residents

Typical commute

27 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 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 137 Fort Cobb residents head out of town to work, 35 work right here, and 244 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fort Cobb.

137live here, work elsewhere

35live and work here

244work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fort Cobb goes to work

Fort Cobb (in town)right here

20%35

Oklahoma City57.9 mi away

12%20

Carnegie8.8 mi away

6%11

Anadarko11.9 mi away

5%8

Chickasha28.6 mi away

5%8

Lawton34.4 mi away

5%8

Binger14.7 mi away

3%5

Hinton27.4 mi away

2%3

Weatherford32.1 mi away

2%3

Tulsa159 mi away

2%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%68

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

How far

How far Fort Cobb commutes

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

29%

18%

21%

33%

29%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fort Cobb is a job hub

1.62jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Fort Cobb are

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

Jobs based in Fort Cobb

279 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)90%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Fort Cobb residents hold

172 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+12%

Jobs based in Fort Cobb, 2013 → 2023: 249 → 279. 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.