Photo: Billy Hathorn at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Logansport’s household incomes are among the lowest in the country
36.3% of residents are in poverty, against 18.9% across Louisiana. Measured by household income, Logansport is among the lowest-earning towns in the country. Logansport grades D− for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Logansport
Where Logansport’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Logansport is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Logansport’s grade up (ahead of 17% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($32,404, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (14.6%) is left out: Logansport’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Logansport stays D−.
Where in the region Logansport works
About 21% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Logansport
On a workday 433 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 215 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Logansport on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.52 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.
24% of working residents work in Shreveport
Where Logansport clocks in
24% of workers
15% 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.
Logansport works in goods: 49% of its jobs
236 jobs are based in Logansport.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Logansport, 2013 → 2023: 187 → 236. 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 Logansport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Logansport, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Logansport workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 385 commuters (the 8% 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.
In Logansport, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Logansport is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 418 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). 20.6% of Logansport households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Logansport’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Logansport sits among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 314 | Paulina LA | 1,785 | $89K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 490 | Sorrento LA | 1,622 | $118K | 8.5% | 3.2% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 513 | Cade LA | 1,710 | $73K | 6.0% | 1.5% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,246 | Broxton GA | 1,080 | $25K | 45.3% | 0.0% | 1% | D− |
| 5,247 | Willacoochee GA | 1,256 | $33K | 27.7% | 1.1% | 17% | D− |
| 5,248 | Logansport LA | 1,325 | $32K | 36.3% | 14.6% | 5% | D− |
| 5,249 | Pomeroy OH | 1,514 | $33K | 39.6% | 2.8% | 10% | D− |
| 5,250 | Three Rivers TX | 1,732 | $47K | 26.2% | 8.5% | 14% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Logansport, 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 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 Logansport: questions
What is the median household income in Logansport?
$32,404 (±$15,590) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Logansport?
36.3%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Logansport?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Logansport work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Shreveport (24%, 36 mi), Mansfield (15%, 18 mi), Center (8%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Logansport walkable?
Logansport is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Logansport without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 21% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Logansport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Logansport
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.