Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0A job hub: Oakwood has 2.4 jobs per working resident, and 406 people come in to work
The trip to work takes 14 minutes on average, where Texas has 27 and the U.S. 26. There are 412 jobs in Oakwood, and 170 of its residents work somewhere. Only 4% stay in Oakwood for work; outside it, Buffalo is the main destination (16%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Oakwood, and who commutes in
On a workday 164 residents head out to work and 6 work right here.
About 650 people are in Oakwood on a workday afternoon, 60% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that send workers to Oakwood
Where Oakwood clocks in
16% of workers
8% of workers
4% 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.
Goods, not services: 77% of the jobs in Oakwood
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oakwood, 2014 → 2024: 312 → 412. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Oakwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Oakwood: about 14 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oakwood workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 102 commuters (the 11% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Oakwood
About 62% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Oakwood: questions
What is the median household income in Oakwood?
$37,396 (±$9,885) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oakwood?
29.6%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oakwood?
14 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oakwood work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Buffalo (16%, 15 mi), Houston (8%, 127 mi), Huntsville (4%, 64 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Oakwood without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 22% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oakwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oakwood
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.