Photo: Gloverepp · CC BY-SA 4.0There are 1.9 jobs in Denham Springs for every working resident, and 6,715 people commute in
There are 7,019 jobs in Denham Springs, against 3,749 working residents. Jobs and income earn Denham Springs B; getting around on foot earns it B+. About one in ten work in Denham Springs; the top destination outside it is Baton Rouge (29%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Denham Springs at work: what stands out
Denham Springs draws workers from far and wide
The 7,019 jobs in Denham Springs are filled from a wide area. The ten biggest home towns of its workers supply 25%; the other 71% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Denham Springs is where the jobs are
Denham Springs has 7,019 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Denham Springs and Baton Rouge trade workers both ways
Baton Rouge is the top workplace for Denham Springs residents (29%) and also where the most people who work in Denham Springs come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
33% of the jobs based in Denham Springs are held by workers 29 or younger, against 25% of Denham Springs’ own working residents. The jobs ↓
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.
Denham Springs’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Denham Springs is better than 56% of U.S. towns, #30 of 161 in Louisiana. Job access by car holds Denham Springs’ grade up (ahead of 82% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Denham Springs could be anywhere from C to A.
Commuting in to Denham Springs: where workers come from
Where Denham Springs clocks in
29% 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.
A workday in Denham Springs: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 3,445 residents head out to work and 304 work right here.
About 13,000 people are in Denham Springs on a workday afternoon, 35% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
What Denham Springs’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Denham Springs, 2014 → 2024: 6,873 → 7,019. 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 Denham Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Denham Springs: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Denham Springs workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,899 commuters (the 6% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Denham Springs
About 18% 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.
Denham Springs is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Denham Springs is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #57 of 161 in Louisiana. Both inputs place Denham Springs 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 4,135 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). 5.2% of Denham Springs households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Denham Springs’ commuters take a bus or train.
1,495th of 2,806: where Denham Springs ranks among U.S. towns of 6,600 to 12,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 184 | Addis LA | 7,679 | $108K | 3.2% | 1.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 354 | Belle Chasse LA | 10,934 | $115K | 6.1% | 2.5% | 15% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 859 | Moss Bluff LA | 12,482 | $92K | 8.9% | 1.1% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,493 | Laurel MT | 7,205 | $68K | 10.0% | 2.4% | 16% | B |
| 1,494 | Fern Park FL | 7,981 | $59K | 12.5% | 3.4% | 2% | B |
| 1,495 | Denham Springs LA | 9,378 | $72K | 6.0% | 7.4% | 8% | B |
| 1,496 | Lake Geneva WI | 8,818 | $76K | 10.7% | 4.3% | 22% | B |
| 1,497 | Kaiminani HI | 11,465 | $111K | 9.8% | 3.8% | 25% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,806 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Denham Springs, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
13% of Denham Springs works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to St. George (11%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Denham Springs workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denham Springs | – | B | B+ | 27 min | $71,569 |
| Central | 2% | A | C− | 29 min | $89,554 |
| St. George | 11% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Denham Springs’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 Denham Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Denham Springs?
$71,569 (±$23,481) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Denham Springs?
6.0%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Denham Springs?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Denham Springs work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Baton Rouge (29%, 10 mi), St. George (11%, 9 mi), New Orleans (3%, 68 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Denham Springs walkable?
Denham Springs is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Denham Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Denham Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Denham Springs
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.