100% of Oark’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Oark for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Clarksville (30%), Lamar (10%) and Mena (10%). Half commute less than 22 miles.
What kind of work town is Oark?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
30% of working residents work in Clarksville
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Oark clocks in
30% of workers
10% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Oark quiets down on a workday
On a workday 10 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 16 people are in Oark on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 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.
Half of Oark commutes less than 22 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 30% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
8 jobs are based in Oark. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Oark’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Working from home in Oark
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
of Oark workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.
- Where the employer says. A job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.
- Two surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Oark
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oark, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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.