Joseph Jefferson House · Photo: Z28scrambler · CC BY-SA 4.0Delcambre has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
173 jobs are based in Delcambre, and 787 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Delcambre are C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Delcambre in brief
Delcambre is a place people come home to
There are 173 jobs based in Delcambre, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Delcambre has about 1,200 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Delcambre workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 26 across Louisiana. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 787 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Delcambre earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Delcambre is better than 28% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Delcambre’s grade up (ahead of 61% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (18.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (7.0%) is left out: Delcambre’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Delcambre could be anywhere from D to B.
The daily flow of workers through Delcambre
On a workday 757 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 143 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Delcambre on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
About 32 minutes each way, longer than most of Louisiana
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delcambre workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 779 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.
16% of working residents work in Lafayette
Where Delcambre clocks in
16% of workers
10% 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.
What Delcambre’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delcambre, 2014 → 2024: 182 → 173. 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 Delcambre’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Delcambre’s workers travel
About 22% 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.
Most trips from Delcambre start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Delcambre is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 819 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). 4.3% of Delcambre households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Delcambre’s commuters take a bus or train.
Delcambre next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400: 3,791st of 6,085 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Bayou Gauche LA | 1,908 | $163K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 267 | Montz LA | 2,074 | $92K | 4.7% | 0.2% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 403 | Des Allemands LA | 2,382 | $88K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,789 | Middlebury Township PA | 1,284 | $62K | 6.2% | 8.7% | 3% | C |
| 3,790 | Murphys CA | 1,951 | $74K | 10.0% | 2.1% | 12% | C |
| 3,791 | Delcambre LA | 1,766 | $59K | 18.5% | 7.0% | 4% | C |
| 3,792 | Sodus NY | 1,692 | $55K | 13.5% | 2.5% | 5% | C |
| 3,793 | Plymouth NY | 1,588 | $78K | 13.2% | 5.9% | <1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Delcambre, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
The towns around Delcambre
The biggest share goes to Erath (2%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Delcambre’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 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 Delcambre: questions
What is the median household income in Delcambre?
$59,038 (±$24,057) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delcambre?
18.5%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delcambre?
32 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Delcambre work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lafayette (16%, 18 mi), New Iberia (10%, 11 mi), Abbeville (9%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Delcambre walkable?
Delcambre is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Delcambre without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Delcambre, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delcambre
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.