Residence Plantation House · Photo: Z28scrambler · CC BY-SA 3.0Bayou Blue has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
The two grades for Bayou Blue are C− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Bayou Blue has 1,593 jobs for 5,593 working residents. Only 3% work in Bayou Blue; the top destination outside it is Bayou Cane (10%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bayou Blue and work: the main findings
Bayou Blue makes and builds things
49% of the jobs based in Bayou Blue are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bayou Blue residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 24%. The jobs ↓
Bayou Blue is a place people come home to
There are 1,593 jobs based in Bayou Blue, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bayou Blue has about 8,200 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Bayou Blue workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 31 minutes each way, against 26 across Louisiana. Over a year that’s about 238 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Every town next door averages less (25 to 26 minutes). Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Inside Bayou Blue’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bayou Blue is better than 21% of U.S. towns, #98 of 161 in Louisiana. Job access by car holds Bayou Blue’s grade up (ahead of 41% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (23.9%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bayou Blue could be anywhere from D to B−.
Goods jobs make up 49% of work in Bayou Blue
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bayou Blue, 2014 → 2024: 1,753 → 1,593. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bayou Blue’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Bayou Blue
On a workday 5,433 residents head out to work, 160 work right here, and 1,433 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,200 people are in Bayou Blue on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 2024, primary jobs.
From Bayou Blue, about 31 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bayou Blue workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,676 commuters (the 9% 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.
Where Bayou Blue goes to work
Where Bayou Blue clocks in
7% of workers
3% 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.
Where in the region Bayou Blue works
About 18% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Bayou Blue is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bayou Blue is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns, #139 of 161 in Louisiana. Both inputs place Bayou Blue near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,142 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). 7.3% of Bayou Blue households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Bayou Blue’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 2,151 U.S. towns of 9,000 to 16,000, Bayou Blue comes 1,865th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 10% | A+ |
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| 296 | Belle Chasse LA | 10,934 | $115K | 6.1% | 2.5% | 15% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 616 | Mandeville LA | 12,918 | $94K | 7.1% | 2.9% | 16% | A− |
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| 722 | Moss Bluff LA | 12,482 | $92K | 8.9% | 1.1% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,863 | Holly Hill FL | 13,268 | $55K | 21.5% | 7.5% | 6% | C− |
| 1,864 | Clarksburg WV | 15,562 | $47K | 23.5% | 4.4% | 23% | C− |
| 1,865 | Bayou Blue LA | 12,218 | $64K | 23.9% | 5.3% | 3% | C− |
| 1,866 | Marshall MO | 13,766 | $54K | 17.1% | 4.1% | 45% | C− |
| 1,867 | Glasgow KY | 15,302 | $43K | 21.9% | 4.3% | 38% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,151 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 19% | 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 Bayou Blue, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
Around Bayou Blue: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bayou Blue workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayou Blue | – | C− | C− | 31 min | $63,958 |
| Gray | 3% | C− | C+ | 26 min | $54,559 |
| Schriever | under 2% | C+ | C− | 25 min | $66,571 |
| Bourg | under 2% | C+ | C | 25 min | $69,094 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Gray. Darker towns draw more of Bayou Blue’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Bayou Blue: questions
What is the median household income in Bayou Blue?
$63,958 (±$16,697) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bayou Blue?
23.9%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bayou Blue?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bayou Blue work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bayou Cane (10%, 5 mi), Thibodaux (7%, 14 mi), New Orleans (3%, 53 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Bayou Blue walkable?
Bayou Blue is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bayou Blue without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bayou Blue, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bayou Blue
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.