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CLAREMORE INDUSTRIAL PARK COMMUTING STUDY
On The Road Again By Marcus Arreguin, MISBusiness Intelligence Research [email protected] full study at RSUinnovation.com
Rogers, 64%
Tulsa, 22%
Mayes, 5%
Wagoner, 4%
Craig, 1%
Washington, 1%
Others, 3%
Claremore Industrial Park commuters All Claremore commuters
Rogers,49%
Tulsa, 18%
Mayes, 5%
Wagoner, 4%
Oklahoma, 3%
Creek, 3%
Washington, 2%
Osage, 1%
Muskogee, 1%
Cherokee, 1%
Others, 13%
Industrial park employee home location hot spots
Drive times and comparisons to other locations
Industrial Park vs. Claremore: worker home county
An estimated 2,000 people work at the Claremore Industrial Park, making it a major source of jobs and wealth for the northeast Oklahoma region. The
purpose of this study is to discuss where indus-trial park employees are coming from and how long their commutes are taking. The industrial park is located in Rogers County in Claremore, OK, northeast of Tulsa on Oklahoma Highway 66. The park includes companies such as Baker Hughes, AXH Air Coolers, Pelco, and Caseco. Map 1 shows a dot map of most of the commuters’ home locations. Map 2 shows employee counts aggregated by their home cities. Of the cities, Claremore had the most workers at 49%, followed by Tulsa with 11% and Broken Arrow with 7%.
About the data & methodology Top employers at the industrial park supplied employee addresses in 2013 (minus any per-sonally identifiable information). Of the 1,615 addresses supplied, 1,373 were able to be geo-coded, and these formed the base data for the study. The other data source was the U.S. Census Bureau, including the ACS and On the Map.
Map 1: Commuters to the Claremore Industrial Park
Map 2: Number of commuters by home city
Map 3: Commuters & industrial park drive time areas
About commuting to the Claremore Industrial Park
46%
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0-14 minutes 15-29 minutes 30-44 minutes 45-59 minutes 60+ minutes
Commute Time Comparisons
Claremore Industrial Park Rogers County Tulsa County United States
Map 3 shows Claremore Industrial Park drive time areas and commut-ers to the park. The commute time comparisons chart below shows
that employees at the industrial park enjoy short drive times relative to those in Rogers County, Tulsa County, and the U.S. as a whole. This sug-gests that park workers are relatively satisfied with living in Claremore and nearby areas. At the Industrial Park, 46% of workers drive less than 15 minutes to work, and 77% drive less than 30 minutes. This is better than Rogers County, which has 32% within 15 minutes and 70% within 30 minutes. And the industrial park is better still than the U.S. as a whole, where only 28% of workers commute less than 15 minutes, and only 64% commute less than 30 minutes.
The map above shows home location hot spot areas of industrial park workers. The hot spots fall into three main clus-ters. These clusters are listed as follows,
in order of decreasing magnitude:
1. Claremore-Verdigris-Chelsea2. Tulsa-Broken Arrow-Catoosa3. Owasso-Collinsville-Oologah
Other areas with important concentrations in-clude Pryor, Bartlesville, Inola, and Vinita.
Two views of Will Rogers Boulevard in Claremore. Photos by Marcus Arreguin.
The charts above show employee home locations by county and compare the Claremore Industrial Park workers to all who work in Claremore. The results sug-
gest that workers at the industrial park tend to
live closer to their workplaces than workers in Claremore as a whole. As evidence, 97% of Clare-more Industrial Park workers live in Rogers Coun-ty or counties adjacent to it, compared to less than 80% for the City of Claremore as a whole.
