Work & commute · Sand Springs

Work & commute in Sand Springs, OK

Most working residents leave Sand Springs for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Tulsa (48%), Oklahoma City (5%) and Broken Arrow (4%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

981 of 9,020 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 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 8,039 Sand Springs residents head out of town to work, 981 work right here, and 5,405 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sand Springs.

8,039live here, work elsewhere

981live and work here

5,405work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sand Springs goes to work

Tulsa12.5 mi away

48%4,359

Sand Springs (in town)right here

11%981

Oklahoma City90.3 mi away

5%427

Broken Arrow20.2 mi away

4%317

Sapulpa8.9 mi away

3%239

Jenks12.7 mi away

2%153

Owasso19.4 mi away

1%120

Bixby19 mi away

1%118

Catoosa20.1 mi away

1%91

Oakhurst5.1 mi away

1%81

Everywhere elseother towns and states

24%2,134

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

How far

How far Sand Springs commutes

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

42%

41%

12%

42%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sand Springs is a commuter town

0.71jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sand Springs are

6,386 jobs are based in Sand Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sand Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sand Springs

6,386 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Sand Springs residents hold

9,020 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+5%

Jobs based in Sand Springs, 2013 → 2023: 6,085 → 6,386. 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.