Photo: Brandonrush · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and earnings in Fair Oaks, and the trip to work
0% of workers have no commute at all, where Arkansas as a whole has 9%. Hardly any stay in Fair Oaks for work; outside it, Memphis is the main destination (14%, 61 miles). 19 jobs are based in Fair Oaks for 22 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Fair Oaks quiets down on a workday
On a workday 22 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 20 people are in Fair Oaks on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Fair Oaks commutes to
Where Fair Oaks clocks in
14% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The kinds of work in Fair Oaks
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fair Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 6 → 19. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fair Oaks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Fair Oaks
of Fair Oaks workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 12 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Arkansas: 87% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Half of Fair Oaks commutes less than 44 miles
About 45% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Fair Oaks workers work outside Arkansas. The job records count 14% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Fair Oaks: questions
What is the poverty rate in Fair Oaks?
0.0%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Fair Oaks work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Memphis (14%, 61 mi), Brinkley (9%, 26 mi), Wynne (9%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fair Oaks without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fair Oaks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fair Oaks
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.