Photo: Billy Hathorn at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Where Keachi earns its living
Keachi has 100 jobs, against 74 working residents. Hardly any work in Keachi itself; outside it, Shreveport draws the most (20%, 22 miles). Commuters spend 29 minutes getting to work on average, next to 26 for Louisiana and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Keachi on a workday afternoon
On a workday 74 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 100 people come in from elsewhere.
About 270 people are in Keachi on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.35 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Keachi work
Where Keachi clocks in
20% of workers
15% of workers
9% 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.
Keachi works in goods: 71% of its jobs
100 jobs are based in Keachi.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Keachi, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 100. 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 Keachi’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Keachi: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Keachi workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 58 commuters (the 3% 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 Keachi commutes less than 24 miles
About 23% 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 Keachi: questions
What is the median household income in Keachi?
$53,125 (±$41,395) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Keachi?
6.0%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Keachi?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Keachi work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Shreveport (20%, 22 mi), Mansfield (15%, 16 mi), Bossier City (9%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Keachi without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Keachi, from the people who make the trip.
More of Keachi
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.