Household incomes in Lockport Heights are higher than in 90% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Lockport Heights A−; getting around on foot earns it C−. Poverty touches 7.5% of residents, where Louisiana as a whole has 18.9%. Only 2% work in Lockport Heights; the top destination outside it is Thibodaux (11%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Lockport Heights stands out on work
What’s behind Lockport Heights’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lockport Heights is better than 77% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($125,654, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 51% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Lockport Heights’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lockport Heights could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Inside Lockport Heights’ 240 jobs
240 jobs are based in Lockport Heights.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lockport Heights, 2013 → 2023: 822 → 240. 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 Lockport Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Lockport Heights for work, and who comes in
On a workday 489 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 229 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Lockport Heights on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.48 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 places Lockport Heights commutes to
Where Lockport Heights clocks in
11% 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.
Lockport Heights’ commute takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lockport Heights workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 809 commuters (the 6% 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.
The commute from Lockport Heights, by distance
About 22% 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.
Driving is how Lockport Heights gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lockport Heights is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.3% across Louisiana.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 858 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). 6.2% of Lockport Heights households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lockport Heights’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Lockport Heights comes 766th on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Bayou Gauche LA | 1,908 | $163K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 383 | Paulina LA | 1,785 | $89K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 592 | Sorrento LA | 1,622 | $118K | 8.5% | 3.2% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 764 | Brown Township IN | 1,670 | $102K | 4.7% | 0.8% | 2% | A− |
| 765 | Eden Township OH | 1,987 | $114K | 4.3% | 1.9% | 1% | A− |
| 766 | Lockport Heights LA | 1,481 | $126K | 7.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| 767 | Avon-by-the-Sea NJ | 1,952 | $123K | 3.4% | 8.7% | 6% | A− |
| 768 | Elmer NJ | 1,376 | $95K | 9.8% | 2.9% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Lockport Heights, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
Around Lockport Heights: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lockport Heights workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lockport Heights | – | A− | C− | 29 min | $125,654 |
| Mathews | 2% | B+ | C− | 37 min | $86,607 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Mathews. Darker towns draw more of Lockport Heights’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Lockport Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Lockport Heights?
$125,654 (±$49,144) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lockport Heights?
7.5%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lockport Heights?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lockport Heights work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Thibodaux (11%, 18 mi), Bayou Cane (5%, 12 mi), New Orleans (4%, 46 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lockport Heights walkable?
Lockport Heights is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lockport Heights without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lockport Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lockport Heights
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.