Daily Maps · September 23, 2026 · Archive
Where oil and gas is the paycheck, owners included
Oil and Gas Share of Earnings (incl. proprietors) is shown for the 1,396 counties that report it. The national median county sits at $0.0115919; the range runs from $0 to $60.7725. Highest: Irion County, TX ($60.7725); North Slope Borough, AK ($60.3396); Hockley County, TX ($37.387); Beckham County, OK ($34.4359). Lowest: Menominee County, WI ($0); Aleutians West Census Area, AK ($0); Alpine County, CA ($0); Aleutians East Borough, AK ($0). Among counties over half a million people, the highest are Montgomery County, TX ($10.779); Harris County, TX ($9.45691); Tulsa County, OK ($9.14882). Sources: BEA CAINC5N 2024; oil and gas extraction + support activities for mining / earnings by place of work. Counts working-interest owners that employer data misses.
How to read this map
A county is drawn solid navy when it falls inside every range the map sets, dotted when it misses one, and hatched when it reports no figure for one of the measures, so a hatched county is neither a match nor a miss. On a heatmap, darker means a higher value and a faded county sits outside the range. The count in the title is the count on the day the map ran.
The figures are the same ones behind every county page on this site: Census population and household income, Zillow home values, HUD fair market rents, County Health Rankings measures of crime and health, NOAA temperatures and USDA amenity scores, each stored with its publication year and listed below for this map. "Play with this map" opens the live county map with these ranges already set, so you can move a handle and watch the count change; "Make your own" starts from a blank map.
Sources
- BEA CAINC5N 2024; oil and gas extraction + support activities for mining / earnings by place of work. Counts working-interest owners that employer data misses
Solid navy marks counties inside every range on this map, dotted counties miss one or all of them, and hatched counties have no figure for that measure. On a heatmap, darker means higher and faded counties fall outside the range.