Work & commute · Mountain View

Work & commute in Mountain View, OK

Most working residents leave Mountain View for work: only 15% work in town. The top destinations are Oklahoma City (10%), Lawton (10%) and Carnegie (8%). Half commute less than 34 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15%

39 of 252 working residents

Typical commute

34 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 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 213 Mountain View residents head out of town to work, 39 work right here, and 123 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mountain View.

213live here, work elsewhere

39live and work here

123work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mountain View goes to work

Mountain View (in town)right here

15%39

Oklahoma City74.2 mi away

10%25

Lawton38.2 mi away

10%25

Carnegie8.5 mi away

8%20

Hobart19.8 mi away

3%8

Anadarko28.7 mi away

3%8

Fort Cobb17.2 mi away

3%7

Weatherford30.5 mi away

2%6

Clinton30.8 mi away

2%6

Stillwater118.1 mi away

2%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%102

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

How far

How far Mountain View commutes

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

27%

10%

29%

35%

27%Under 10 mi

10%10–24 mi

29%25–50 mi

35%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mountain View is a commuter town

0.64jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mountain View are

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

Jobs based in Mountain View

162 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities38%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Mountain View residents hold

252 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month41%

+9%

Jobs based in Mountain View, 2013 → 2023: 149 → 162. 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.