Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Mansfield are lower than in 98% of U.S. towns
0% of workers have no commute at all, next to 8% for Louisiana as a whole. Below the poverty line: 30.2% of residents, where Louisiana as a whole has 18.9%. For jobs and income Mansfield is better than 4% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mansfield and work: the main findings
Mansfield’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Mansfield is Shreveport, 30 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (326) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Mansfield is where the jobs are
Mansfield has 3,002 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Fewer than half of Mansfield workers earn over $40,000 a year
38% of Mansfield’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 19% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
The biggest group of Mansfield’s workers comes from Shreveport
298 of the people who work in Mansfield live in Shreveport, 30 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
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.
The four measures behind Mansfield’s grade
Job access by car holds Mansfield’s grade up (ahead of 39% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($33,844, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mansfield could be anywhere from D− to D.
Miles to work from Mansfield
About 25% 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.
Mansfield by day and by night
On a workday 1,378 residents head out to work, 476 work right here, and 2,526 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,600 people are in Mansfield on a workday afternoon, 26% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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 3,002 jobs based in Mansfield
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mansfield, 2013 → 2023: 2,840 → 3,002. 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 Mansfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting in to Mansfield: where workers come from
Where Mansfield clocks in
18% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
Commuting from Mansfield: about 22 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mansfield workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,471 commuters (the 1% 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 Mansfield, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,479 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). 24.5% of Mansfield households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Mansfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mansfield and other U.S. towns of 3,100 to 6,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 309 | Hahnville LA | 3,520 | $101K | 6.7% | 0.0% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,356 | Westlake LA | 4,763 | $68K | 12.1% | 0.0% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,382 | Maurice LA | 3,215 | $91K | 11.8% | 3.4% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,876 | Whiteville TN | 4,482 | $42K | 28.4% | 15.1% | 6% | D− |
| 3,877 | San Diego TX | 3,503 | $53K | 34.0% | 10.8% | 13% | D− |
| 3,878 | Mansfield LA | 4,475 | $34K | 30.2% | 13.3% | 26% | D− |
| 3,879 | Dos Palos CA | 5,697 | $42K | 17.6% | 9.4% | 20% | D− |
| 3,880 | Linton IN | 5,245 | $45K | 17.3% | 13.3% | 22% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,000 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Mansfield, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
Around Mansfield: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mansfield workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mansfield | – | D− | B+ | 22 min | $33,844 |
| South Mansfield | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. South Mansfield: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mansfield’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 Mansfield: questions
What is the median household income in Mansfield?
$33,844 (±$5,545) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mansfield?
30.2%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mansfield?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mansfield work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Shreveport (18%, 30 mi), Center (7%, 33 mi), Bossier City (5%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mansfield walkable?
Mansfield is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mansfield without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 24% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mansfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mansfield
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.