Work & commute · Krebs

Work & commute in Krebs, OK

Most working residents leave Krebs for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are McAlester (38%), Oklahoma City (4%) and Durant (3%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

19 of 527 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

15 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 508 Krebs residents head out of town to work, 19 work right here, and 457 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Krebs.

508live here, work elsewhere

19live and work here

457work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Krebs goes to work

McAlester3.1 mi away

38%198

Krebs (in town)right here

4%19

Oklahoma City107.9 mi away

4%19

Durant75.1 mi away

3%18

Tulsa83.4 mi away

3%14

Muskogee59.8 mi away

2%11

Wilburton23.5 mi away

2%9

Fort Smith, AR81.5 mi away

1%5

Hugo64.5 mi away

1%5

Okmulgee49.8 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%224

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

How far

How far Krebs commutes

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

48%

39%

48%Under 10 mi

7%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

39%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Krebs is balanced between jobs and homes

0.90jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Krebs are

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

Jobs based in Krebs

476 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)45%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)41%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Krebs residents hold

527 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+33%

Jobs based in Krebs, 2013 → 2023: 358 → 476. 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.