Photo: Bart Everson · CC BY 2.0Household incomes put Mansura near the very bottom of U.S. towns
Mansura grades D− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Measured by household income, Mansura is among the lowest-earning towns in the country. The poverty rate is 52.2%, where Louisiana as a whole has 18.9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Mansura in brief
Mansura is where the jobs are
Mansura has 801 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Mansura workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 26 across Louisiana. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 377 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Mansura’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Mansura is better than 2% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Mansura’s grade up (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($21,797, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (30.2%) is left out: Mansura’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, Mansura stays D−.
Who commutes out of Mansura, and who commutes in
On a workday 347 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 771 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Mansura on a workday afternoon, 34% more than live here.
2.1 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 2024, primary jobs.
About 34 minutes to work from Mansura
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mansura workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 228 commuters (the 16% 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.
Where Mansura’s workers come from
Where Mansura clocks in
12% 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.
What Mansura’s employers do
801 jobs are based in Mansura.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mansura, 2014 → 2024: 602 → 801. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mansura’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Mansura to work
About 28% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Mansura walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mansura is more walkable than 17% 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 271 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). 13.6% of Mansura households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mansura’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, and where Mansura sits
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 434 | Sorrento LA | 1,622 | $118K | 8.5% | 3.2% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 557 | Lockport Heights LA | 1,481 | $126K | 7.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 803 | Mathews LA | 1,598 | $87K | 6.0% | 1.6% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,710 | Rosebud SD | 1,659 | $55K | 38.2% | 16.3% | 29% | D− |
| 4,711 | Burkesville KY | 1,389 | $34K | 28.9% | 1.4% | 34% | D− |
| 4,712 | Mansura LA | 1,260 | $22K | 52.2% | 30.2% | 8% | D− |
| 4,713 | Mound Bayou MS | 1,381 | $24K | 46.4% | 4.4% | 8% | D− |
| 4,714 | Marble Hill MO | 1,380 | $38K | 29.5% | 4.2% | 15% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Mansura, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
Bordering towns draw 20% of Mansura’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mansura workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mansura | – | D− | C− | 34 min | $21,797 |
| Marksville | 20% | D | B+ | 34 min | $36,202 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Marksville. Darker towns draw more of Mansura’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 2024, 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 Mansura: questions
What is the median household income in Mansura?
$21,797 (±$10,669) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mansura?
52.2%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mansura?
34 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mansura work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marksville (20%, 4 mi), Alexandria (12%, 29 mi), Cottonport (3%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Mansura walkable?
Mansura is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mansura without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mansura, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mansura
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.