Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Oak Hill has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Jobs and income earn Oak Hill C−; getting around on foot earns it C. Oak Hill has 241 jobs, against 702 working residents. The average commute takes 27 minutes each way (Florida 28, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Oak Hill
On income, poverty and job access, Oak Hill is better than 16% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Oak Hill’s grade up ($65,950, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (18.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (8.2%) is left out: Oak Hill’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 Hill could be anywhere from D to B−.
How a workday changes Oak Hill
On a workday 683 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 222 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Oak Hill on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
13% of working residents work in Edgewater
Where Oak Hill clocks in
13% of workers
11% of workers
6% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oak Hill, 2013 → 2023: 92 → 241. 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 Oak Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Oak Hill spends getting to work: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oak Hill workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 574 commuters (the 15% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% 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.
The commute from Oak Hill, by distance
About 29% 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.
In Oak Hill, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Oak Hill is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 676 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.2% of Oak Hill households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Oak Hill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Oak Hill is 4,425th of 5,641 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 3,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 128 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,423 | Turley OK | 2,968 | $42K | 21.9% | 10.2% | 3% | C− |
| 4,424 | Hoxie AR | 2,568 | $35K | 19.0% | 4.3% | 10% | C− |
| 4,425 | Oak Hill FL | 2,188 | $66K | 18.7% | 8.2% | 3% | C− |
| 4,426 | Alta IA | 1,958 | $66K | 10.2% | 18.8% | 8% | C− |
| 4,427 | Versailles MO | 2,713 | $34K | 20.4% | 2.9% | 32% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,641 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Hill, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Bordering towns draw 13% of Oak Hill’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Edgewater. Darker towns draw more of Oak Hill’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Oak Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Oak Hill?
$65,950 (±$10,716) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oak Hill?
18.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oak Hill?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oak Hill work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Edgewater (13%, 8 mi), New Smyrna Beach (11%, 13 mi), Daytona Beach (6%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Oak Hill walkable?
Oak Hill is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Oak Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oak Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oak Hill
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. 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.