Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Junction City works elsewhere
A typical one-way commute lasts 53 minutes (Louisiana 26, U.S. 26). 10 jobs are based in Junction City, against 148 working residents. Hardly any work in Junction City; the top destination outside it is El Dorado (9%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Junction City
On a workday 148 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 270 people are in Junction City on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 Junction City: the destinations
Where Junction City clocks in
9% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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 Junction City: what the 10 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Junction City, 2013 → 2023: 6 → 10. 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 Junction City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 53 minutes each way, longer than most of Louisiana
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 16.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Junction City workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 152 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.
Half of Junction City commutes less than 34 miles
About 32% 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 Junction City: questions
What is the poverty rate in Junction City?
59.0%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Junction City?
53 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Junction City work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are El Dorado (9%, 15 mi), Farmerville (9%, 25 mi), Ruston (8%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Junction City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 35% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Junction City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Junction City
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.