Photo: Billy Hathorn at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Longstreet has 2.4 jobs per working resident, and 106 people come in to work
The average commute takes 35 minutes each way, next to 26 for Louisiana and 26 for the U.S. There are 106 jobs in Longstreet, against 45 working residents. Hardly any work in Longstreet; the top destination outside it is Shreveport (16%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Longstreet on a workday afternoon
On a workday 45 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 180 people are in Longstreet on a workday afternoon, 50% more 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 in to Longstreet: where workers come from
Where Longstreet clocks in
16% of workers
13% of workers
7% 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.
94% of the jobs in Longstreet pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Longstreet, 2013 → 2023: 14 → 106. 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 Longstreet’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 35 minutes each way for Longstreet’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Longstreet workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 45 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.
How far Longstreet’s workers travel
About 24% 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 Longstreet: questions
What is the median household income in Longstreet?
$78,750 (±$36,587) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Longstreet?
27.2%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Longstreet?
35 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Longstreet work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Shreveport (16%, 27 mi), Mansfield (13%, 15 mi), Bossier City (7%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Longstreet 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 Longstreet, from the people who make the trip.
More of Longstreet
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.