Paragould draws about half of Oak Grove Heights’ working residents
The two grades for Oak Grove Heights are B for jobs and income and D for walkability. Hardly any work in Oak Grove Heights; the top destination outside it is Paragould (46%, 5 miles). Commuters spend 27 minutes getting to work on average; the Arkansas average is 23, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Oak Grove Heights, in brief
Oak Grove Heights is a place people come home to
There are 25 jobs based in Oak Grove Heights, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Oak Grove Heights has about 790 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Nearly half of Oak Grove Heights works in Paragould
198 working residents, 46%, have their main job in Paragould, 5.4 miles away. That’s 46 times as many as work in Oak Grove Heights itself. The commute map ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Oak Grove Heights’ working residents have a job less than 7 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 27 minutes, longer than the Arkansas average of 23. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 430 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Oak Grove Heights’ grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Oak Grove Heights is better than 57% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Oak Grove Heights’ grade up (7.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.9%) is left out: Oak Grove Heights’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Oak Grove Heights could be anywhere from C to A−.
Who works in Oak Grove Heights, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 427 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Oak Grove Heights on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
0.06 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Oak Grove Heights work
Where Oak Grove Heights clocks in
46% of workers
13% of workers
3% 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.
Commuting from Oak Grove Heights: about 27 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oak Grove Heights workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 547 commuters (the 5% 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.
What work there is in Oak Grove Heights: 25 jobs
25 jobs are based in Oak Grove Heights.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oak Grove Heights, 2014 → 2024: 35 → 25. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Oak Grove Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Oak Grove Heights
About 16% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Oak Grove Heights, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Oak Grove Heights is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Oak Grove Heights near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 578 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.5% of Oak Grove Heights households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Oak Grove Heights’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Oak Grove Heights is 1,174th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Roland AR | 1,147 | $175K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 372 | Wooster AR | 1,150 | $112K | 5.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,170 | Redfield AR | 1,492 | $72K | 8.3% | 3.0% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,172 | Wayne ME | 1,167 | $93K | 7.9% | 1.3% | 3% | B |
| 1,173 | Barker Ten Mile NC | 1,156 | $67K | 6.0% | 2.4% | 1% | B |
| 1,174 | Oak Grove Heights AR | 1,195 | $82K | 7.4% | 0.9% | 1% | B |
| 1,175 | Harris MN | 1,139 | $87K | 8.7% | 2.5% | 1% | B |
| 1,176 | Kingston Township MN | 1,279 | $85K | 6.6% | 7.6% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Oak Grove Heights, the top three, the last and three more from Arkansas.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Oak Grove Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Oak Grove Heights?
$82,292 (±$24,021) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oak Grove Heights?
7.4%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oak Grove Heights?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oak Grove Heights work?
1% work in town.
Is Oak Grove Heights walkable?
Oak Grove Heights is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Oak Grove Heights 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 Oak Grove Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oak Grove Heights
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.