Work & commute · Porum

Work & commute in Porum, OK

Most working residents leave Porum for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Muskogee (22%), Tulsa (11%) and Oklahoma City (4%). Half commute less than 43 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

8 of 199 working residents

Typical commute

43 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

23%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 191 Porum residents head out of town to work, 8 work right here, and 223 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Porum.

191live here, work elsewhere

8live and work here

223work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Porum goes to work

Muskogee27.2 mi away

22%43

Tulsa64.2 mi away

11%21

Porum (in town)right here

4%8

Oklahoma City126.9 mi away

4%8

Warner9.6 mi away

3%6

Stigler10.7 mi away

3%6

Fort Smith, AR50.3 mi away

3%5

Sallisaw26.6 mi away

3%5

Broken Arrow55.5 mi away

3%5

Fayetteville, AR78.9 mi away

2%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%89

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

How far

How far Porum commutes

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

12%

34%

46%

8%Under 10 mi

12%10–24 mi

34%25–50 mi

46%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Porum is balanced between jobs and homes

1.16jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.16 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Porum are

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

Jobs based in Porum

231 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less34%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Porum residents hold

199 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month51%

+437%

Jobs based in Porum, 2013 → 2023: 43 → 231. 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.