Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Most of Egan commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Egan has 106 jobs, and 218 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Egan are B for jobs and income and D− for walkability. 0% of workers work from home, against 8% across Louisiana.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Inside Egan’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Egan is better than 60% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Egan’s grade up ($93,196, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.3%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (6.9%) is left out: Egan’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, Egan could be anywhere from C− to A.
How many people are in Egan by day
On a workday 216 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 104 people come in from elsewhere.
About 900 people are in Egan on a workday afternoon, 11% 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.
20% of working residents work in Crowley
Where Egan clocks in
20% of workers
13% of workers
6% 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.
Egan makes things: 70% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Egan, 2013 → 2023: 70 → 106. 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 Egan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Egan: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Egan workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 390 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Egan
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.
Most of Egan commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Egan is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Egan 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 390 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). 1.4% of Egan households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Egan’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Egan is 744th among 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 734 | Watson LA | 1,357 | $97K | 17.2% | 3.0% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 742 | Scott Township IN | 1,198 | $67K | 0.0% | 10.9% | <1% | B |
| 743 | Sauk Centre Township MN | 1,234 | $99K | 6.3% | 0.8% | 4% | B |
| 744 | Egan LA | 1,015 | $93K | 10.3% | 6.9% | 1% | B |
| 745 | Magnolia OH | 1,013 | $75K | 7.4% | 3.1% | 1% | B |
| 746 | Linton Township IN | 1,254 | $99K | 8.0% | 6.1% | 8% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 953 | Choudrant LA | 1,032 | $73K | 8.1% | 0.5% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,057 | New Sarpy LA | 1,247 | $52K | 9.4% | 8.5% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Egan, 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 Egan: questions
What is the median household income in Egan?
$93,196 (±$54,083) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Egan?
10.3%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Egan?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Egan work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Crowley (20%, 8 mi), Lafayette (13%, 29 mi), Rayne (6%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Egan walkable?
Egan is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Egan without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Egan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Egan
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.