Photo: 2C2KPhotography · CC BY 4.0Boyce has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 8% for Louisiana as a whole. Boyce has 82 jobs, and 282 of its residents work somewhere. Only 2% work in Boyce itself; outside it, Alexandria draws the most (40%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Boyce: the figures worth knowing
Boyce and Alexandria trade workers both ways
Alexandria is the top workplace for Boyce residents (40%) and also where the most people who work in Boyce come from (24% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Boyce is a place people come home to
There are 82 jobs based in Boyce, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Boyce are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 26 across Louisiana. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Louisiana worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 282 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Boyce goes to work
Where Boyce clocks in
40% of workers
6% 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.
Who works in Boyce, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 277 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 77 people come in from elsewhere.
About 660 people are in Boyce on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Each way, about 20 minutes from Boyce
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boyce workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 433 commuters (the 0% 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.
The kinds of work in Boyce
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boyce, 2013 → 2023: 142 → 82. 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 Boyce’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Boyce
About 26% 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.
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 Boyce: questions
What is the median household income in Boyce?
$37,895 (±$11,819) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boyce?
15.0%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boyce?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boyce work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alexandria (40%, 14 mi), Pineville (6%, 16 mi), Baton Rouge (3%, 112 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Boyce without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 25% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boyce, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boyce
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.