Akron Cemetery · Photo: Kennethrorie · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Oil Trough commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers, against 9% across Arkansas. Oil Trough has 11 jobs, and 83 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Oil Trough for work; outside it, Batesville is the main destination (24%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Oil Trough, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 83 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 150 people are in Oil Trough on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
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 towns that employ Oil Trough’s residents
Where Oil Trough clocks in
Lines 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Oil Trough
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oil Trough, 2013 → 2023: 7 → 11. 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 Oil Trough’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Oil Trough: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oil Trough workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 79 commuters (the 2% 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.
How far it is to work from Oil Trough
About 23% 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Oil Trough: questions
What is the median household income in Oil Trough?
$40,083 (±$27,844) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oil Trough?
40.2%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oil Trough?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oil Trough work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Batesville (24%, 13 mi), Searcy (14%, 31 mi), Southside (8%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Oil Trough without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oil Trough, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oil Trough
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.