With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Deville works elsewhere
Hardly any stay in Deville for work; outside it, Alexandria is the main destination (40%, 20 miles). 21 jobs are based in Deville for 595 working residents. Deville grades D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Deville at work: what stands out
Deville is a place people come home to
There are 21 jobs based in Deville, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Deville has about 1,000 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
40% of Deville works in Alexandria
240 working residents, 40%, have their main job in Alexandria, 20 miles away. That’s far more as work in Deville itself. The commute map ↓
Deville 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 595 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Who commutes out of Deville, and who commutes in
On a workday 593 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Deville on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
The places Deville commutes to
Where Deville clocks in
40% of workers
14% 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.
About 32 minutes to work from Deville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Deville workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 384 commuters (the 14% 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.
Deville is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deville, 2013 → 2023: 8 → 21. 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 Deville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Deville, by distance
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.
Few in Deville walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Deville is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Deville 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 444 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). 5.1% of Deville households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Deville’s commuters take a bus or train.
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 Deville: questions
What is the poverty rate in Deville?
16.2%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Deville?
32 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Deville work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alexandria (40%, 20 mi), Pineville (14%, 16 mi), Marksville (2%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Deville walkable?
Deville is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Deville 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 Deville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deville
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.