Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Grayson works elsewhere
There are 64 jobs in Grayson for 123 working residents. Hardly any work in Grayson itself; outside it, Columbia draws the most (11%, 4 miles). Home is the office for 23% of workers, where Louisiana as a whole has 8%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Grayson for work, and who comes in
On a workday 122 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 63 people come in from elsewhere.
About 370 people are in Grayson on a workday afternoon, 14% 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 Grayson: the destinations
Where Grayson clocks in
11% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Grayson: what the 64 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grayson, 2013 → 2023: 107 → 64. 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 Grayson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Grayson takes about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grayson workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 163 commuters (the 23% 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.
Grayson’s commute, mile by mile
About 30% 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 Grayson: questions
What is the median household income in Grayson?
$46,875 (±$25,897) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grayson?
32.6%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grayson?
33 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grayson work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbia (11%, 4 mi), Banks Springs (7%, 2 mi), Monroe (7%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Grayson 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 Grayson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grayson
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.