Olive Jeanette · Photo: Z28scrambler · CC BY-SA 3.0Lutcher has lower unemployment (2.2%) than 82% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Lutcher itself; outside it, New Orleans draws the most (6%, 46 miles). Jobs and income earn Lutcher B−; getting around on foot earns it B+. Measured by household income, Lutcher is behind 73% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs & income in Lutcher: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lutcher is better than 53% of U.S. towns, #36 of 161 in Louisiana. Unemployment holds Lutcher’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($60,375, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lutcher could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Lutcher fills up on a workday
On a workday 1,060 residents head out to work, 119 work right here, and 1,412 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,200 people are in Lutcher on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 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 Lutcher’s working residents head each day
Where Lutcher clocks in
6% of workers
5% 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.
In Lutcher, services account for most jobs
1,531 jobs are based in Lutcher.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lutcher, 2013 → 2023: 1,521 → 1,531. 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 Lutcher’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 23 minutes in Lutcher
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lutcher workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 959 commuters (the 5% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Lutcher
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.
For most of Lutcher, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lutcher is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns, #34 of 161 in Louisiana. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,014 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). 5.3% of Lutcher households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lutcher’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lutcher next to U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,800: 2,094th of 4,703 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 264 | Hahnville LA | 3,520 | $101K | 6.7% | 0.0% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 277 | Montz LA | 2,074 | $92K | 4.7% | 0.2% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 441 | Des Allemands LA | 2,382 | $88K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,092 | Riley Township IN | 3,174 | $97K | 12.5% | 4.0% | 1% | B− |
| 2,093 | Milton LA | 2,793 | $106K | 20.3% | 4.6% | 1% | B− |
| 2,094 | Lutcher LA | 2,822 | $60K | 14.1% | 2.2% | 10% | B− |
| 2,095 | Manheim NY | 3,026 | $70K | 8.6% | 1.9% | 14% | B− |
| 2,096 | French Camp CA | 3,264 | $91K | 23.2% | 4.2% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,703 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Lutcher, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
Around Lutcher: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Gramercy (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Lutcher’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 Lutcher: questions
What is the median household income in Lutcher?
$60,375 (±$9,635) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lutcher?
14.1%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lutcher?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lutcher work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Orleans (6%, 46 mi), Reserve (5%, 9 mi), Baton Rouge (4%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lutcher walkable?
Lutcher is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lutcher without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lutcher, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lutcher
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.