Most of Basile commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Basile has 236 jobs for 431 working residents. For jobs and income Basile is better than 10% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (D). Measured by household income, Basile is behind 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Basile stands out on work
What’s behind Basile’s Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Basile’s grade.
Unemployment (17.7%) is left out: Basile’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Basile could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Short hops and long hauls from Basile
About 33% 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.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Basile by day and by night
On a workday 420 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 225 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Basile on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Basile’s residents
Where Basile clocks in
12% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
In Basile, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Basile, 2013 → 2023: 167 → 236. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Basile’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes each way for Basile’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Basile workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 424 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Louisiana: 85% 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.
Few in Basile walk, bike or ride to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.3% across Louisiana.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 433 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.5% of Basile households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Basile’s commuters take a bus or train.
Basile places 3,532nd of 4,312 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 489 | Lockport Heights LA | 1,481 | $126K | 7.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 707 | Mathews LA | 1,598 | $87K | 6.0% | 1.6% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,056 | Perry LA | 1,424 | $82K | 9.5% | 1.3% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,530 | Kingston GA | 1,176 | $53K | 17.2% | 10.0% | <1% | D |
| 3,531 | Moyie Springs ID | 1,317 | $62K | 14.7% | 7.0% | 4% | D |
| 3,532 | Basile LA | 1,192 | $52K | 17.4% | 17.7% | 3% | D |
| 3,533 | Beggs OK | 1,188 | $46K | 31.2% | 1.5% | 4% | D |
| 3,534 | Perryville AR | 1,408 | $57K | 20.6% | 1.3% | 17% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Basile, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, 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 Basile: questions
What is the median household income in Basile?
$52,415 (±$9,985) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Basile?
17.4%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Basile?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Basile work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eunice (12%, 11 mi), Lafayette (6%, 39 mi), Baton Rouge (5%, 88 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Basile walkable?
Basile is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Basile without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Basile, from the people who make the trip.
More of Basile
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.