Work & commute · Mounds

Work & commute in Mounds, OK

Most working residents leave Mounds for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Tulsa (33%), Oklahoma City (8%) and Sapulpa (6%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13 of 410 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 397 Mounds residents head out of town to work, 13 work right here, and 318 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mounds.

397live here, work elsewhere

13live and work here

318work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

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Where Mounds goes to work

Tulsa19.7 mi away

33%135

Oklahoma City86 mi away

8%34

Sapulpa9.4 mi away

6%26

Jenks9.9 mi away

4%15

Mounds (in town)right here

3%13

Broken Arrow19.3 mi away

3%13

Glenpool6.1 mi away

3%11

Bixby11.6 mi away

2%8

Sand Springs18.1 mi away

2%7

Okmulgee18.4 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%142

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

How far

How far Mounds commutes

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

19%

50%

11%

20%

19%Under 10 mi

50%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mounds is balanced between jobs and homes

0.81jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.81 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mounds are

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

Jobs based in Mounds

331 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Mounds residents hold

410 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+133%

Jobs based in Mounds, 2013 → 2023: 142 → 331. 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.