Household incomes in Haynesville are among the lowest of any U.S. town
Household incomes here are among the lowest in the country. 48.2% of residents are in poverty (Louisiana 18.9%). The two grades for Haynesville are D− for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Haynesville: the figures worth knowing
What’s behind Haynesville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Haynesville is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Haynesville’s grade.
Unemployment (12.8%) is left out: Haynesville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Haynesville stays D−.
What the 335 jobs in Haynesville are
335 jobs are based in Haynesville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Haynesville, 2014 → 2024: 425 → 335. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Haynesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Haynesville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 676 residents head out to work, 91 work right here, and 244 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Haynesville on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
0.44 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
15% of working residents work in Homer
Where Haynesville clocks in
15% of workers
7% 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.
About 29 minutes each way for Haynesville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Haynesville workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 515 commuters (the 4% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Haynesville
About 28% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Haynesville walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Haynesville is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.3% across Louisiana.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 534 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). 20.2% of Haynesville households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Haynesville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Haynesville and other U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Bayou Gauche LA | 1,908 | $163K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 259 | Montz LA | 2,074 | $92K | 4.7% | 0.2% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 398 | Des Allemands LA | 2,382 | $88K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,596 | Dermott AR | 2,412 | $27K | 31.7% | 17.9% | 16% | D− |
| 5,597 | Salyersville KY | 1,502 | $21K | 58.2% | 7.1% | 23% | D− |
| 5,598 | Haynesville LA | 1,872 | $21K | 48.2% | 12.8% | 12% | D− |
| 5,599 | Fayette MS | 1,315 | $29K | 38.0% | 1.0% | 18% | D− |
| 5,600 | Tchula MS | 1,659 | $35K | 44.6% | 23.9% | 3% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Haynesville, 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 2024, 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 Haynesville: questions
What is the median household income in Haynesville?
$20,688 (±$5,179) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Haynesville?
48.2%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Haynesville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Haynesville work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Homer (15%, 13 mi), Shreveport (7%, 51 mi), Minden (7%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Haynesville walkable?
Haynesville is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Haynesville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 20% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Haynesville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Haynesville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.