Photo: Karen Apricot New Orleans · CC BY-SA 2.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Dulac works elsewhere
Dulac has 160 jobs for 388 working residents. Only 3% work in Dulac; the top destination outside it is Bayou Cane (12%, 16 miles). Working residents average 25 minutes each way, next to 26 for Louisiana and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Dulac, in a few figures
Goods jobs make up 67% of work in Dulac
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dulac, 2013 → 2023: 304 → 160. 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 Dulac’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Dulac for work, and who comes in
On a workday 375 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 147 people come in from elsewhere.
About 290 people are in Dulac on a workday afternoon, 44% 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.
Commuting out of Dulac: the destinations
Where Dulac clocks in
3% 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.
How long Dulac spends getting to work: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dulac workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 182 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.
Dulac’s commute, mile by mile
About 25% 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.
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 Dulac: questions
What is the median household income in Dulac?
$38,750 (±$12,934) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dulac?
19.7%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dulac?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dulac work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bayou Cane (12%, 16 mi), New Orleans (3%, 64 mi), Baton Rouge (3%, 77 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Dulac without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dulac, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dulac
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.