Household incomes in Jonesville are lower than in 94% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Louisiana has 8%. 34.3% of residents are in poverty; Louisiana has 18.9%. The two grades for Jonesville are D− for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Jonesville, in a few figures
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Fewer than half of Jonesville workers earn over $40,000 a year
39% of Jonesville’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 22% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Jonesville than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Jonesville fell from 990 in 2014 to 736 in 2024, −26%. 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 ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 595 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jonesville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Jonesville is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Jonesville’s grade.
Unemployment (6.4%) is left out: Jonesville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Jonesville could be anywhere from D− to D.
How far Jonesville’s workers travel
About 33% 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.
Inside Jonesville’s 736 jobs
736 jobs are based in Jonesville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jonesville, 2014 → 2024: 990 → 736. 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 Jonesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Jonesville, and who commutes in
On a workday 472 residents head out to work, 123 work right here, and 613 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.24 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
9% of working residents work in Harrisonburg
Where Jonesville clocks in
4% 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.
Commuting from Jonesville: about 21 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jonesville workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 365 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Jonesville
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Jonesville is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 13.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 8.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 365 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). 18.2% of Jonesville households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Jonesville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Jonesville and other U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Bayou Gauche LA | 1,908 | $163K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 250 | Montz LA | 2,074 | $92K | 4.7% | 0.2% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 364 | Presquille LA | 2,062 | $112K | 1.1% | 14.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,667 | Moore Haven FL | 1,745 | $40K | 26.3% | 12.2% | 7% | D− |
| 5,668 | Gretna FL | 1,296 | $36K | 33.5% | 3.7% | <1% | D− |
| 5,669 | Jonesville LA | 1,531 | $44K | 34.3% | 6.4% | 21% | D− |
| 5,670 | Grayling MI | 1,969 | $33K | 31.9% | 4.6% | 27% | D− |
| 5,671 | Doniphan MO | 1,784 | $38K | 30.2% | 3.3% | 33% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Jonesville, 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 Jonesville: questions
What is the median household income in Jonesville?
$43,684 (±$25,961) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jonesville?
34.3%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jonesville?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jonesville work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrisonburg (9%, 10 mi), Jena (4%, 18 mi), Alexandria (4%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Jonesville walkable?
Jonesville is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Jonesville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jonesville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jonesville
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.