All Saints Episcopal Church · Photo: Z28scrambler · CC BY-SA 4.0DeQuincy has lower household incomes than 93% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 16.5% of residents; Louisiana has 18.9%. For jobs and income DeQuincy is better than 12% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (A). Home is the office for 0% of workers; Louisiana has 8%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in DeQuincy: the figures worth knowing
28% of DeQuincy works in Lake Charles
271 working residents, 28%, have their main job in Lake Charles, 22 miles away. That’s twice as many as work in DeQuincy itself. The commute map ↓
Many jobs in DeQuincy pay little
26% of the jobs based in DeQuincy pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
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; with 978 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for DeQuincy
Job access by car holds DeQuincy’s grade up (ahead of 37% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($44,281, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.9%) is left out: DeQuincy’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, DeQuincy could be anywhere from D to C+.
28% of working residents work in Lake Charles
Where DeQuincy clocks in
Lines 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 DeQuincy
752 jobs are based in DeQuincy.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in DeQuincy, 2013 → 2023: 914 → 752. 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 DeQuincy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of DeQuincy, and who commutes in
On a workday 850 residents head out to work, 128 work right here, and 624 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 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.
The daily trip from DeQuincy: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of DeQuincy workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 976 commuters (the 0% 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.
Where in the region DeQuincy works
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Good to walk, short on transit: DeQuincy
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 17.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 8.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 976 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). 12.0% of DeQuincy households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of DeQuincy’s commuters take a bus or train.
DeQuincy next to U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900: 4,200th of 4,882 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 282 | Hahnville LA | 3,520 | $101K | 6.7% | 0.0% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 296 | Montz LA | 2,074 | $92K | 4.7% | 0.2% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 472 | Des Allemands LA | 2,382 | $88K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,198 | Nyssa OR | 3,257 | $69K | 16.9% | 7.4% | 15% | D |
| 4,199 | Hallettsville TX | 2,736 | $56K | 15.3% | 5.4% | 22% | D |
| 4,200 | DeQuincy LA | 2,878 | $44K | 16.5% | 1.9% | 13% | D |
| 4,201 | Lisbon ND | 2,184 | $64K | 15.4% | 3.5% | 34% | D |
| 4,202 | Rushville Township IL | 2,344 | $54K | 15.0% | 5.6% | 21% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 DeQuincy, 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 DeQuincy: questions
What is the median household income in DeQuincy?
$44,281 (±$19,597) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in DeQuincy?
16.5%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from DeQuincy?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in DeQuincy work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lake Charles (28%, 22 mi), Sulphur (7%, 16 mi), Carlyss (2%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is DeQuincy walkable?
DeQuincy is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 18% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around DeQuincy without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from DeQuincy, from the people who make the trip.
More of DeQuincy
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.