Lecompte High School · Photo: Nikkipellet101 · CC BY-SA 3.0Lecompte at work: jobs, income and the commute
Commuters spend 22 minutes getting to work on average; the Louisiana average is 26, the U.S. 26. Home is the office for 18% of workers, next to 8% for Louisiana as a whole. Hardly any work in Lecompte; the top destination outside it is Alexandria (39%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Lecompte: the figures worth knowing
39% of Lecompte works in Alexandria
102 working residents, 39%, have their main job in Alexandria, 15 miles away. That’s far more as work in Lecompte itself. The commute map ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
61% of the jobs in Lecompte are in trade, transport and utilities, against 19% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Lecompte pay better than its residents’ jobs
67% of the jobs based in Lecompte pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 43% of the jobs Lecompte residents hold. 100% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Lecompte. The jobs ↓
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; with 259 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Commuting out of Lecompte: the destinations
Where Lecompte clocks in
39% of workers
5% of workers
3% 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.
67% of the jobs in Lecompte pay over $3,333 a month
303 jobs are based in Lecompte.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lecompte, 2013 → 2023: 176 → 303. 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 Lecompte’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Lecompte on a workday afternoon
On a workday 258 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 302 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 (1.17 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.
About 22 minutes to work from Lecompte
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lecompte workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 166 commuters (the 18% 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 Lecompte
About 30% 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 Lecompte: questions
What is the median household income in Lecompte?
$35,357 (±$9,211) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lecompte?
38.3%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lecompte?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lecompte work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alexandria (39%, 15 mi), Pineville (5%, 18 mi), Lafayette (3%, 65 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lecompte without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lecompte, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lecompte
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.