Photo: Ktkvtsh · CC BY 4.0A job hub: Mound has 6.2 jobs per working resident, and 31 people come in to work
For 0% of workers, the job is at home (Louisiana 8%). 31 jobs are based in Mound, against 5 working residents. Hardly any work in Mound itself; outside it, Tallulah draws the most (40%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mound on a workday afternoon
On a workday 5 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 38 people are in Mound on a workday afternoon, 217% 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.
The towns that send workers to Mound
Where Mound clocks in
40% of workers
20% 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 Mound’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mound, 2013 → 2023: 6 → 31. 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 Mound’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes to work from Mound
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mound workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 35 commuters (the 0% 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.
Half of Mound commutes less than 10 miles
About 50% 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.
Around Mound: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mound workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mound | – | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Delta | under 20% | — | — | 21 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Delta: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mound’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 Mound: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mound?
0.0%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mound?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mound work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tallulah (40%, 11 mi), Monroe (20%, 63 mi), Natchez (20%, 58 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mound 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 Mound, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mound
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.