Photo: Falkonry (Uploads) · Public domainHousehold incomes in Maurice top those of 69% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Maurice B+; getting around on foot earns it C. Below the poverty line: 11.8% of residents, against 18.9% across Louisiana. Only 4% work in Maurice; the top destination outside it is Lafayette (36%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Maurice
What’s behind Maurice’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Maurice is better than 67% of U.S. towns, #18 of 161 in Louisiana. Job access by car holds Maurice’s grade up (ahead of 72% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Maurice could be anywhere from C to A+.
The towns that employ Maurice’s residents
Where Maurice clocks in
36% 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.
Who commutes out of Maurice, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,005 residents head out to work, 47 work right here, and 719 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.73 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.
Factories, building and farms: 28% of the jobs in Maurice
766 jobs are based in Maurice.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maurice, 2013 → 2023: 616 → 766. 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 Maurice’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Maurice, about 27 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Maurice workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,064 commuters (the 9% 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 Maurice goes to work
About 18% 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.
In Maurice, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Maurice is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns, #114 of 161 in Louisiana. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.1% of 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 1,168 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). 0.3% of Maurice households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Maurice’s commuters take a bus or train.
Maurice places 1,316th of 4,316 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,300
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 270 | Hahnville LA | 3,520 | $101K | 6.7% | 0.0% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 451 | Des Allemands LA | 2,382 | $88K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 708 | South Vacherie LA | 2,954 | $81K | 3.7% | 1.6% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,314 | Nevada City CA | 3,174 | $76K | 8.9% | 0.0% | 16% | B+ |
| 1,315 | Carthage IL | 2,393 | $77K | 6.7% | 0.1% | 31% | B+ |
| 1,316 | Maurice LA | 3,215 | $91K | 11.8% | 3.4% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,317 | Washington Township IN | 2,916 | $69K | 6.3% | 2.2% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,318 | Riverview DE | 2,596 | $93K | 8.2% | 3.2% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,316 | 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 Maurice, 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 Maurice: questions
What is the median household income in Maurice?
$90,833 (±$29,160) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Maurice?
11.8%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Maurice?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Maurice work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lafayette (36%, 9 mi), Abbeville (8%, 9 mi), Youngsville (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Maurice walkable?
Maurice is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Maurice without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Maurice, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maurice
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.