Photo: Louisiana Sea Grant College Program Louisiana State University · CC BY 2.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Chauvin works elsewhere
There are 148 jobs in Chauvin for 797 working residents. Jobs and income earn Chauvin D; getting around on foot earns it D. Measured by household income, Chauvin is behind 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Chauvin at work: what stands out
What’s behind Chauvin’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Chauvin is better than 6% of U.S. towns, #138 of 161 in Louisiana. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Chauvin’s grade.
Unemployment (10.3%) is left out: Chauvin’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, Chauvin could be anywhere from D− to C−.
In and out of Chauvin on a workday
On a workday 753 residents head out to work, 44 work right here, and 104 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Chauvin on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
13% of working residents work in Bayou Cane
Where Chauvin clocks in
5% 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.
The kinds of work in Chauvin
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chauvin, 2013 → 2023: 152 → 148. 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 Chauvin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes to work from Chauvin
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chauvin workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 778 commuters (the 5% 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 Chauvin’s workers travel
About 21% 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 Chauvin walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Chauvin is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns, #151 of 161 in Louisiana. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 3.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 821 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). 8.5% of Chauvin households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Chauvin’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Chauvin compares with U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Bayou Gauche LA | 1,908 | $163K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 271 | Montz LA | 2,074 | $92K | 4.7% | 0.2% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 423 | Des Allemands LA | 2,382 | $88K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,449 | Frederick OK | 3,371 | $45K | 25.0% | 5.0% | 37% | D |
| 4,450 | Lincoln Township MI | 1,841 | $49K | 14.8% | 5.8% | 1% | D |
| 4,451 | Chauvin LA | 2,502 | $53K | 21.3% | 10.3% | 6% | D |
| 4,452 | Pine Ridge SD | 2,246 | $53K | 14.5% | 7.9% | 10% | D |
| 4,453 | Rayville LA | 3,176 | $27K | 41.1% | 12.2% | 21% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Chauvin, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
Chauvin and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Chauvin’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 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 Chauvin: questions
What is the median household income in Chauvin?
$52,619 (±$12,217) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chauvin?
21.3%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chauvin?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chauvin work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bayou Cane (13%, 16 mi), New Orleans (5%, 58 mi), Baton Rouge (3%, 76 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Chauvin walkable?
Chauvin is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Chauvin without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chauvin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chauvin
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.