Here at the Okmulgee Area Development Corporation, we see some interesting if not hard to believe statistics about the Okmulgee area. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, over 4,000 people commute into Okmulgee County to work each day. 4,000? That’s the size of a small city. That aligns to our own research that 42% of the professional and skilled workforce employed in Okmulgee (i.e. executive, management, engineering, high skilled employees) commute to Okmulgee from more than 50 miles away (primarily Tulsa County but many others from 21 other counties). That’s a lot of payroll dollars that are leaving the Okmulgee area - dollars presumably spent in another town.