Photo: Dieter Karner · CC BY 2.0Household incomes in Jeanerette are lower than in 94% of U.S. towns
For 17% of workers, the job is at home; Louisiana has 8%. 38.7% of residents live below the poverty line, against 18.9% across Louisiana. Jeanerette grades D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Jeanerette, in brief
Jeanerette workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 26 across Louisiana. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Jeanerette and New Iberia trade workers both ways
New Iberia is the top workplace for Jeanerette residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Jeanerette come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Jeanerette than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Jeanerette fell from 597 in 2013 to 389 in 2023, −35%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Fewer than half of Jeanerette workers earn over $40,000 a year
40% of Jeanerette’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 18% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Jeanerette is a place people come home to
There are 389 jobs based in Jeanerette, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
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.
The four measures behind Jeanerette’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Jeanerette is better than 13% of U.S. towns, #119 of 161 in Louisiana. Job access by car holds Jeanerette’s grade up (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Jeanerette could be anywhere from D to B−.
A commute of about 34 minutes in Jeanerette
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jeanerette workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,472 commuters (the 17% 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.
21% of working residents work in New Iberia
Where Jeanerette clocks in
21% of workers
12% of workers
4% 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.
The kinds of work in Jeanerette
389 jobs are based in Jeanerette.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jeanerette, 2013 → 2023: 597 → 389. 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 Jeanerette’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Jeanerette by day and by night
On a workday 1,411 residents head out to work, 71 work right here, and 318 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,400 people are in Jeanerette on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.26 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 2023, primary jobs.
The distance from Jeanerette to work
About 20% 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.
In Jeanerette, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Jeanerette is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns, #44 of 161 in Louisiana. Both inputs place Jeanerette 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 1,772 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). 14.4% of Jeanerette households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Jeanerette’s commuters take a bus or train.
Jeanerette next to U.S. towns of 3,100 to 6,100: 3,627th of 4,088 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 316 | Hahnville LA | 3,520 | $101K | 6.7% | 0.0% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,116 | Elmwood LA | 6,077 | $89K | 7.7% | 4.8% | 13% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,389 | Westlake LA | 4,763 | $68K | 12.1% | 0.0% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,625 | East Eldorado Township IL | 5,182 | $51K | 19.0% | 5.1% | 23% | D |
| 3,626 | Colville WA | 5,116 | $57K | 21.9% | 4.7% | 42% | D |
| 3,627 | Jeanerette LA | 4,484 | $43K | 38.7% | 5.7% | 5% | D |
| 3,628 | El Dorado Springs MO | 3,642 | $32K | 28.4% | 2.6% | 27% | D |
| 3,629 | Worth Township MI | 3,423 | $61K | 13.4% | 7.0% | 10% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,088 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Jeanerette, 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 Jeanerette: questions
What is the median household income in Jeanerette?
$43,438 (±$25,701) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jeanerette?
38.7%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jeanerette?
34 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jeanerette work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Iberia (21%, 11 mi), Lafayette (12%, 29 mi), Broussard (4%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Jeanerette walkable?
Jeanerette is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Jeanerette 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 Jeanerette, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jeanerette
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.