Photo: Sharon Mollerus · CC BY 2.0Oak Hill’s household incomes are among the highest in the country
Oak Hill grades A+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. 1.2% of residents are in poverty, where Tennessee as a whole has 13.8%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Oak Hill, in brief
More than half of Oak Hill works in Nashville
1,252 working residents, 62%, have their main job in Nashville, 7 miles away. That’s 62 times as many as work in Oak Hill itself. The commute map ↓
Jobs in Oak Hill have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Oak Hill went from 451 in 2013 to 966 in 2023, +114%. The jobs ↓
Most Oak Hill residents work close to home
74% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about three in four. How far ↓
A lot of Oak Hill works from home
21% of Oak Hill workers work from home, against 13% across Tennessee. Time on the road ↓
Three in four Oak Hill workers earn over $40,000 a year
77% of Oak Hill’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, the top earnings band in the Census data. 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.
Where Oak Hill’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Oak Hill is among the top U.S. towns, #2 of 177 in Tennessee. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Oak Hill’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Oak Hill stays A+.
62% of working residents work in Nashville
Where Oak Hill clocks in
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.
Services make up most of the work in Oak Hill
966 jobs are based in Oak Hill.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oak Hill, 2013 → 2023: 451 → 966. 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.
Oak Hill’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Oak Hill
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oak Hill workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,778 commuters (the 21% who work from home are left out). Across Tennessee: 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.
Oak Hill on a workday afternoon
On a workday 2,007 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 944 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,500 people are in Oak Hill on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
0.48 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 2023, primary jobs.
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 28% of U.S. towns, #113 of 177 in Tennessee. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.0% across Tennessee.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,254 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 6% 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 2.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 71% 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). 1.6% of Oak Hill households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Oak Hill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Oak Hill places 11th of 3,938 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| 10 | Nichols Hills OK | 3,864 | $208K | 2.8% | 0.3% | 5% | A+ |
| 11 | Oak Hill TN | 4,581 | $216K | 1.2% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 12 | Hainesport Township NJ | 6,197 | $143K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 5% | A+ |
| 13 | Fulton MD | 5,677 | $222K | 0.7% | 1.7% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 60 | Forest Hills TN | 4,473 | $250K | 6.7% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 423 | Coopertown TN | 4,843 | $118K | 9.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 476 | Christiana TN | 4,777 | $101K | 4.9% | 2.5% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,938 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Tennessee.
The towns around Oak Hill
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Oak Hill workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Hill | – | A+ | C | 21 min | $215,530 |
| Forest Hills | under 1% | A+ | C− | 18 min | $250,000+ |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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?
$215,530 (±$23,640) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oak Hill?
1.2%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oak Hill?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oak Hill work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Nashville (62%, 7 mi), Brentwood (7%, 5 mi), Franklin (6%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Oak Hill walkable?
Oak Hill is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and <1% 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.