Photo: Vbofficial · Public domainOak Hill has lower household incomes than 93% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers, against 13% across Ohio. 18.4% of residents are in poverty, where Ohio as a whole has 13.3%. The two grades for Oak Hill are D− for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Oak Hill: the figures worth knowing
Why Oak Hill gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Oak Hill is better than 5% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Oak Hill’s grade.
Unemployment (5.9%) is left out: Oak Hill’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Oak Hill could be anywhere from D− to C.
The trip to work from Oak Hill: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oak Hill workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 539 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% 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 daily flow of workers through Oak Hill
On a workday 461 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 415 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 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.
18% of working residents work in Jackson
Where Oak Hill clocks in
5% of workers
5% 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.
Jobs in Oak Hill: what the 436 are
436 jobs are based in Oak Hill.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oak Hill, 2013 → 2023: 411 → 436. 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.
Where in the region Oak Hill works
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.
In Oak Hill, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Oak Hill is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, the same share as across Ohio, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 551 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). 13.6% of Oak Hill households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Oak Hill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Oak Hill next to U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,310 | Independence LA | 1,665 | $40K | 31.0% | 14.2% | 4% | D− |
| 5,311 | Wheaton MN | 1,330 | $46K | 15.4% | 3.1% | 37% | D− |
| 5,312 | Oak Hill OH | 1,420 | $45K | 18.4% | 5.9% | 4% | D− |
| 5,313 | Bogata TX | 1,118 | $40K | 19.4% | 1.5% | 5% | D− |
| 5,314 | Pomeroy WA | 1,481 | $52K | 16.4% | 6.5% | 29% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Ohio.
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?
$44,821 (±$19,905) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oak Hill?
18.4%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oak Hill?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oak Hill work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jackson (18%, 11 mi), Columbus (5%, 78 mi), Wellston (5%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Oak Hill walkable?
Oak Hill is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Oak Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
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.