Gibson Methodist Episcopal Church · Photo: Z28scrambler · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Bayou L'Ourse commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Only 1% work in Bayou L'Ourse; the top destination outside it is Thibodaux (7%, 16 miles). 56 jobs are based in Bayou L'Ourse, and 658 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Bayou L'Ourse are C for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Bayou L'Ourse apart on work
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Bayou L'Ourse
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bayou L'Ourse is better than 33% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Bayou L'Ourse’s grade up (3.1%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bayou L'Ourse could be anywhere from D to B+.
Bayou L'Ourse on a workday afternoon
On a workday 651 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 49 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Bayou L'Ourse on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Where Bayou L'Ourse’s working residents head each day
Where Bayou L'Ourse clocks in
7% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Bayou L'Ourse: what the 56 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bayou L'Ourse, 2014 → 2024: 30 → 56. 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 L'Ourse’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes to work from Bayou L'Ourse
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bayou L'Ourse workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 973 commuters (the 3% 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.
Miles to work from Bayou L'Ourse
About 24% 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.
Driving is how Bayou L'Ourse gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bayou L'Ourse is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Bayou L'Ourse 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 1,004 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). 1.2% of Bayou L'Ourse households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bayou L'Ourse’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900, Bayou L'Ourse ranks 3,248th of 5,404 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Bayou Gauche LA | 1,908 | $163K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 272 | Montz LA | 2,074 | $92K | 4.7% | 0.2% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 420 | Des Allemands LA | 2,382 | $88K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,246 | Churchill Township MI | 1,569 | $66K | 5.7% | 4.1% | 7% | C |
| 3,247 | Bagdad AZ | 2,814 | $108K | 10.8% | 6.5% | 52% | C |
| 3,248 | Bayou L'Ourse LA | 2,132 | $60K | 16.7% | 3.1% | 1% | C |
| 3,249 | Lockport LA | 2,333 | $60K | 10.8% | 5.6% | 2% | C |
| 3,250 | Superior NE | 1,821 | $64K | 5.5% | 1.1% | 43% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 L'Ourse, 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 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 L'Ourse: questions
What is the median household income in Bayou L'Ourse?
$60,219 (±$18,874) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bayou L'Ourse?
16.7%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bayou L'Ourse?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bayou L'Ourse work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Thibodaux (7%, 16 mi), Morgan City (7%, 8 mi), St. George (5%, 45 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Bayou L'Ourse walkable?
Bayou L'Ourse is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bayou L'Ourse without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bayou L'Ourse, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bayou L'Ourse
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.