Photo: U.S. Department of Agriculture · Public domainHouseholds in Breaux Bridge earn less than those in 90% of U.S. towns
30.4% of residents are in poverty; Louisiana has 18.9%. The two grades for Breaux Bridge are C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. About one in seven work in Breaux Bridge; the top destination outside it is Lafayette (27%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Breaux Bridge: the gist
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Breaux Bridge
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Breaux Bridge is better than 30% of U.S. towns, #71 of 161 in Louisiana. Job access by car holds Breaux Bridge’s grade up (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Breaux Bridge could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Where Breaux Bridge’s working residents head each day
Where Breaux Bridge clocks in
27% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
Breaux Bridge by day and by night
On a workday 2,473 residents head out to work, 434 work right here, and 3,885 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,100 people are in Breaux Bridge on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.49 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What work there is in Breaux Bridge: 4,319 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Breaux Bridge, 2013 → 2023: 3,523 → 4,319. 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 Breaux Bridge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Breaux Bridge: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Breaux Bridge workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,717 commuters (the 10% 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.
How far Breaux Bridge’s workers travel
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Breaux Bridge walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Breaux Bridge is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns, #49 of 161 in Louisiana. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,011 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). 14.2% of Breaux Bridge households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Breaux Bridge’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Breaux Bridge ranks: 2,297th of 3,018 U.S. towns of 5,400 to 10,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 181 | Addis LA | 7,679 | $108K | 3.2% | 1.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 943 | Harahan LA | 8,916 | $80K | 7.5% | 3.8% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 980 | Elmwood LA | 6,077 | $89K | 7.7% | 4.8% | 13% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,295 | Avon CO | 6,184 | $89K | 12.2% | 8.1% | 18% | C |
| 2,296 | Monmouth IL | 8,599 | $61K | 17.7% | 3.6% | 44% | C |
| 2,297 | Breaux Bridge LA | 7,652 | $48K | 30.4% | 3.5% | 15% | C |
| 2,298 | Booneville MS | 9,257 | $51K | 15.1% | 3.2% | 33% | C |
| 2,299 | Latimer MS | 6,756 | $70K | 16.1% | 6.4% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,018 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Breaux Bridge, 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 Breaux Bridge: questions
What is the median household income in Breaux Bridge?
$47,806 (±$7,775) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Breaux Bridge?
30.4%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Breaux Bridge?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Breaux Bridge work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lafayette (27%, 9 mi), Baton Rouge (6%, 47 mi), Broussard (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Breaux Bridge walkable?
Breaux Bridge is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Breaux Bridge without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Breaux Bridge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Breaux Bridge
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.