City · Ottawa County, Oklahoma

Commerce, Oklahoma

Commerce is a city in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, part of the Miami, OK metro area. It has 2,212 residents. Commerce, Oklahoma has a quality-of-life score of 1 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,490 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Oklahoma it ranks #236 of 237 cities and towns. It ranks best on average commute time (low), mental health providers (high) and home price to income ratio (low). It ranks worst on suicide rate (high), child poverty rate (high) and poverty rate (high).

1Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,490 of 15,651 cities and towns
Oklahoma: #236 of 237 in OK
Population: 2,212 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 956.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 4016500

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety8#14,307/15,637
Economy3#15,162/15,631
Housing76#3,586/14,977
Health2#15,372/15,609
Healthcare5#14,805/15,650
Environment6#14,562/15,453
Education6#14,749/15,649
Infrastructure9#14,193/15,650
Community12#13,833/15,651
Leisure & amenities3#15,170/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Commerce, Oklahoma ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Ottawa County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Average commute time · low15.9 min
96/100Oklahoma 22.4 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Mental health providers · high553 /100k
91/100Oklahoma 439 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOttawa County value
Home price to income ratio · low2.1×
91/100Oklahoma 3.1×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Effective property tax rate · low0.57%
82/100Oklahoma 0.79%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Social associations · high12.9 /10k
82/100Oklahoma 11.1 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOttawa County value
Drug overdose deaths · low11.8 /100k
71/100Oklahoma 19.8 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataOttawa County value

Weaknesses

Suicide rate · high39.6 /100k
1/100Oklahoma 19.4 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataOttawa County value
Child poverty rate · high51.4%
1/100Oklahoma 18.7%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Poverty rate · high35.1%
1/100Oklahoma 14.8%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Dental care shortage · high20.0
1/100Oklahoma 7.8United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationOttawa County value
Physical inactivity · high42.7%
1/100Oklahoma 32.5%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high26.5%
2/100Oklahoma 14.4%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
2,538 (2015-2019) → 2,212 (2020-2024)
−13%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
57.0% (2015-2019) → 82.3% (2020-2024)
+25 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateWorsening
42.8% (2015-2019) → 51.4% (2020-2024)
+8.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Poverty rateWorsening
29.2% (2015-2019) → 35.1% (2020-2024)
+5.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Unemployment rateImproving
7.5% (2015-2019) → 3.0% (2020-2024)
−4.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.8× (2015-2019) → 2.1× (2020-2024)
+17%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Commerce, Oklahoma improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 11 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Broadband+25 points57.0% → 82.3%

Declined2

Child poverty+8.6 points42.8% → 51.4%
Price / income+0.3×1.8× → 2.1×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Commerce, Oklahoma between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	16.1 min2015-2019	15.9 min2020-2024	−0.3 min	Within the margin of error	51%
Bachelor's degree or higher	9.4%2015-2019	8.3%2020-2024	−1.1 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Broadband subscriptions	57.0%2015-2019	82.3%2020-2024	+25 points	Improved	95%
Child poverty rate	42.8%2015-2019	51.4%2020-2024	+8.6 points	Declined	14%
Effective property tax rate	0.69%2015-2019	0.57%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	41%
High school diploma or higher	75.9%2015-2019	75.4%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Home price to income ratio	1.8×2015-2019	2.1×2020-2024	+0.3×	Declined	61%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4222015-2019	0.4582020-2024	+0.036	Within the margin of error	23%
Median household income	$32,8572015-2019	$34,8172020-2024	+6%	Within the margin of error	12%
Poverty rate	29.2%2015-2019	35.1%2020-2024	+5.9 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	31.1%2015-2019	31.1%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	55%
Rent-burdened households	52.9%2015-2019	52.4%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	58%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	24.5%2015-2019	26.4%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	26%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Commerce, Oklahoma five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Commerce, Oklahoma in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Commerce, Oklahoma itself moved −0.8 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,212 residents (±139)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

840 households (±61)

Commerce, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Under $25k33%275
$25k–50k31%262
$50k–75k16%134

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

840 households (±61)

Commerce, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Own64%535
Rent36%305

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

867 workers (±72)

Commerce, Oklahoma
Oklahoma share

Drive alone83%723
Carpool13%109
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Miami, OK

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Ottawa County, the county holding most of Commerce's residents.

Ottawa County has 548 employer establishments, 181 for every 10,000 residents (0.73× the US rate of 248; 0.76× Oklahoma's), with 8,370 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,516. The Census Bureau also counts 1,886 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 548; 1,886 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 181; US 248 · Oklahoma 237
Paid employees: 8,370
Average annual pay: $42,516; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Ottawa County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	39	12.9	0.62×Fewer than typical	619	$55,126	28
Religious organizations	39	12.9	2.32×More than typical	156	$28,449	—
Specialty trade contractors	35	11.6	0.75×Fewer than typical	134	$33,037	240
Restaurants and other eating places	32	10.6	0.58×Fewer than typical	439	$17,763	9
Full-service restaurants	16	5.3	0.69×Fewer than typical	137	$19,664	3
Automotive repair and maintenance	15	5	0.98×About typical	37	$42,432	53
Building equipment contractors	15	5	0.82×About typical	51	$26,529	36
Banks and credit unions	14	4.6	1.43×More than typical	161	$57,634	—
Limited-service restaurants	14	4.6	0.58×Fewer than typical	292	$17,199	5
Gasoline stations	13	4.3	1.32×More than typical	150	$20,240	—
General merchandise stores	13	4.3	2.43×More than typical	374	$29,885	8
Truck transportation	13	4.3	0.85×About typical	98	$56,163	75

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County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 30,291 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $99K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Commerce, Oklahoma: $44.74 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $99K
Per resident: $44.74; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 100%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Environmental Protection Agency$99K100%

Top recipients

CH2M HILL, INC$99K100%

Spending by fiscal year

4.1KFY2021
2.3MFY2022
0FY2023
198.6KFY2024
0FY2025
99KFY2026

What was bought

Facilities & utilities$99K100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Remediation and other waste management services · 5629$99K100%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Commerce, Oklahoma, so they do not add up across cities.

Commerce, Oklahoma's figures are part of those of Ottawa County, OK ($3.7M in FY2026), never added to them: 2.7% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Commerce is mostly in Ottawa County.

See federal money in Ottawa County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Commerce, Oklahoma is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Josh BrecheenR-OK-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 4.7%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Ottawa County3100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Miami, OK2

Other cities and towns in Ottawa County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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