Whats the difference between a hobo and a homeless person?

Hobo is a species of the genus Homeless person

According to Wikipedia, a hobo is a migrant worker or homeless vagabound or a wandering worker. They were not the same as tramps who worked only when absolutely necessary or bums who didn’t work at all.

I think a hobo chooses to be as @hawaii_jake put it a homeless vagabound or wandering worker. Whereas a homeless person has (for whatever reason) lost their home and have nowhere to go.

Would one difference be in their mode of transportation? hobos have always been related to riding on trains and homeless people either hitchhike or have a really cheap automobile.

The Hobo is a creature of 1900–1950 and the homeless person didn’t appear until 1980. Between the 1950’s and 1980, there were other variants, including beatnicks, hippies, bimmies and bums. Hobos were distinguished by a life on the move, traveling in the ever present train cars filled with hay, cooking over open fires, and knocking on Mrs. Benson’s back door offering to stack her firewood for a slice of her fresh-baked pie.

We have homeless people in the UK but the concept of a Hobo isn’t something that occurs here. The way I percieve it, a hobo travels alone from place to place sleeping rough, looking for work. A homeless person just stays in one place. The nearest we have to hobos is gypsies and travellers, but I guess they’re not exactly the same thing either. They don’t exactly sleep rough.

When I hear hobo, I think homeless man, drinking a PBJ or cheap malt. Homeless person more or less means to me, anyone without a home.

A hobo has not home OR job, but a homeless person may still have a job?