Work & commute · Medicine Park

Work & commute in Medicine Park, OK

Most working residents leave Medicine Park for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Lawton (44%), Oklahoma City (14%) and Duncan (2%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

8 of 142 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 134 Medicine Park residents head out of town to work, 8 work right here, and 319 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Medicine Park.

134live here, work elsewhere

8live and work here

319work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Medicine Park goes to work

Lawton8.7 mi away

44%63

Oklahoma City74.6 mi away

14%20

Medicine Park (in town)right here

6%8

Duncan34.3 mi away

2%3

Cache10.7 mi away

1%2

Elgin11.1 mi away

1%2

Anadarko26.6 mi away

1%2

Moore70.2 mi away

1%2

Tulsa174.2 mi away

1%2

Reydon103.2 mi away

1%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

26%37

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

How far

How far Medicine Park commutes

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

48%

18%

28%

48%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Medicine Park is a job hub

2.30jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Medicine Park are

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

Jobs based in Medicine Park

327 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month45%

Over $3,333 a month28%

Jobs Medicine Park residents hold

142 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+108%

Jobs based in Medicine Park, 2013 → 2023: 157 → 327. 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.