Photo: Staff Sergeant Bradley Rhen · Public domainSchofield Barracks has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 16.6 in Urban Honolulu. Schofield Barracks has 973 jobs; 2,204 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Schofield Barracks is better than 69% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns (A+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Schofield Barracks at work: what stands out
Commutes from Schofield Barracks are quick
The average trip to work takes 11 minutes, against 26 across Hawaii. That’s about 115 hours a year less on the road than the typical Hawaii worker. Time on the road ↓
The jobs in Schofield Barracks pay better than its residents’ jobs
66% of the jobs based in Schofield Barracks pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 42% of the jobs Schofield Barracks residents hold. 87% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Schofield Barracks. The jobs ↓
37% of Schofield Barracks works in Urban Honolulu
807 working residents, 37%, have their main job in Urban Honolulu, 18 miles away. That’s 6 times as many as work in Schofield Barracks itself. The commute map ↓
A young workforce
34% of Schofield Barracks’ working residents are 29 or younger, about one in three. The jobs ↓
Schofield Barracks has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Schofield Barracks went from 694 in 2013 to 973 in 2023, +40%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Inside Schofield Barracks’ Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Schofield Barracks’ grade up (2.5%, U.S. 11.9%); family income pulls it down ($80,891, U.S. $99,999). It also does well on job access by car.
12% of Schofield Barracks’ residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (16% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 2.5%, against 2.6% for all residents. Unemployment (13.1%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($80,891), since student households pull the household median down ($80,388).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Schofield Barracks could be anywhere from B to A−.
From Schofield Barracks, about 11 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Schofield Barracks workers work from home, vs 10% across Hawaii. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9,251 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Hawaii: 72% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
In Schofield Barracks, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Schofield Barracks, 2013 → 2023: 694 → 973. 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 Schofield Barracks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
37% of working residents work in Urban Honolulu
Where Schofield Barracks clocks in
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.
How many people are in Schofield Barracks by day
On a workday 2,075 residents head out to work, 129 work right here, and 844 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Schofield Barracks
About 21% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Schofield Barracks
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 29.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.0% across Hawaii, on an EPA index of 10.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 9,493 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 50% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 32% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 58% 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). 1.8% of Schofield Barracks households have no vehicle (Hawaii 8.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Schofield Barracks’ commuters take a bus or train.
Schofield Barracks is 1,019th of 2,220 U.S. towns of 11,000 to 22,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
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| 111 | Ocean Pointe HI | 17,085 | $150K | 2.1% | 2.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 136 | Mililani Mauka HI | 21,278 | $139K | 3.3% | 2.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 538 | Halawa HI | 14,385 | $110K | 9.3% | 2.6% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,017 | Orono ME | 12,421 | $62K | 24.9% | 5.1% | 23% | B+ |
| 1,018 | Hanover Township PA | 11,702 | $107K | 7.7% | 6.4% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,019 | Schofield Barracks HI | 16,270 | $80K | 2.6% | 13.1% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,020 | Little Ferry NJ | 11,099 | $86K | 6.3% | 7.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,021 | Seabrook TX | 13,974 | $103K | 6.5% | 9.2% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,220 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Schofield Barracks, the top three, the last and three more from Hawaii.
Next door to Schofield Barracks
The biggest share goes to Wahiawa (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Schofield Barracks workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schofield Barracks | – | B+ | A+ | 11 min | $80,388 |
| Wheeler AFB | under 2% | A | B | 14 min | $91,667 |
| Wahiawa | 2% | B− | A | 32 min | $87,143 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Schofield Barracks’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.
- Students. 12% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Schofield Barracks: questions
What is the median household income in Schofield Barracks?
$80,388 (±$7,254) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $100,389 across Hawaii and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Schofield Barracks?
2.6% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 2.5%. Hawaii: 10.0%.
How long is the commute from Schofield Barracks?
11 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Hawaii and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Schofield Barracks work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Urban Honolulu (37%, 18 mi), Mililani Town (3%, 4 mi), Kapolei (3%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Schofield Barracks walkable?
Schofield Barracks is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 10.1 out of 20, and 29% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Schofield Barracks without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 32% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Schofield Barracks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Schofield Barracks
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.