Cut Off has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Cut Off has 1,079 jobs, and 2,134 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Cut Off C; getting around on foot earns it D. Only 7% stay in Cut Off for work; outside it, Galliano is the main destination (17%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Cut Off: the figures worth knowing
Stores, warehouses and trucking
51% of the jobs in Cut Off are in trade, transport and utilities, against 37% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Few Cut Off workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 8% across Louisiana. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
What’s behind Cut Off’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cut Off is better than 34% of U.S. towns, #62 of 161 in Louisiana. Unemployment holds Cut Off’s grade up (2.6%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cut Off could be anywhere from D to B.
What Cut Off’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cut Off, 2013 → 2023: 1,062 → 1,079. 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 Cut Off’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes to work from Cut Off
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cut Off workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,168 commuters (the 2% 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 daily flow of workers through Cut Off
On a workday 1,978 residents head out to work, 156 work right here, and 923 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,300 people are in Cut Off on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
Where people from Cut Off work
Where Cut Off clocks in
9% 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.
How far Cut Off goes to work
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.
The commute in Cut Off is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cut Off is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns, #146 of 161 in Louisiana. Both inputs place Cut Off 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 2,219 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). 9.6% of Cut Off households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cut Off’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cut Off is 2,475th of 3,541 U.S. towns of 3,800 to 7,300 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,033 | Elmwood LA | 6,077 | $89K | 7.7% | 4.8% | 13% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,287 | Westlake LA | 4,763 | $68K | 12.1% | 0.0% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,307 | Red Chute LA | 6,526 | $86K | 7.5% | 4.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,473 | Oregon Township MI | 5,722 | $84K | 9.4% | 10.9% | 3% | C |
| 2,474 | Lemoore Station CA | 6,175 | $69K | 9.4% | 11.2% | 2% | C |
| 2,475 | Cut Off LA | 5,398 | $68K | 19.2% | 2.6% | 7% | C |
| 2,476 | Frackville PA | 3,893 | $57K | 18.8% | 3.0% | 5% | C |
| 2,477 | Thatcher AZ | 5,690 | $83K | 12.1% | 4.6% | 14% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,541 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Cut Off, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
Bordering towns draw 24% of Cut Off’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Galliano. Darker towns draw more of Cut Off’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 Cut Off: questions
What is the median household income in Cut Off?
$67,941 (±$18,881) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cut Off?
19.2%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cut Off?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cut Off work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Galliano (17%, 5 mi), Thibodaux (9%, 35 mi), Larose (7%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cut Off walkable?
Cut Off is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cut Off without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cut Off, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cut Off
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.