Work & commute · Hooks

Work & commute in Hooks, TX

Most working residents leave Hooks for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Texarkana (33%), Texarkana (6%) and New Boston (4%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

82 of 908 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 826 Hooks residents head out of town to work, 82 work right here, and 313 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hooks.

826live here, work elsewhere

82live and work here

313work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hooks goes to work

Texarkana11.7 mi away

33%301

Hooks (in town)right here

9%82

Texarkana, AR17.4 mi away

6%56

New Boston7.7 mi away

4%36

Dallas150.9 mi away

2%21

Nash8.9 mi away

2%20

Tyler99.3 mi away

2%14

Mount Pleasant45.2 mi away

1%13

Houston262.7 mi away

1%13

Longview71.2 mi away

1%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%341

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Hooks commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

26%

42%

27%

26%Under 10 mi

42%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hooks is a commuter town

0.44jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.44 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Hooks are

395 jobs are based in Hooks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hooks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Hooks

395 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)87%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Hooks residents hold

908 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month46%

+6%

Jobs based in Hooks, 2013 → 2023: 374 → 395. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe 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 saysA 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 surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.