home folk vs folk

home folk and folk both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
home folk	Yes	No	No	No
folk	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, folk is a hypernym of home folk; that is, folk is a word with a broader meaning than home folk:

Other hypernyms of home folk include common people, folks.

home folk (noun)	folk (noun)
folks from your own home town	the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
	people in general (often used in the plural)
	a social division of (usually preliterate) people
	people descended from a common ancestor