Most of New Sarpy commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
New Sarpy grades B− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Employers in New Sarpy report 263 jobs, against 594 working residents. Household incomes here are lower than in 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in New Sarpy
What’s behind New Sarpy’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, New Sarpy is better than 49% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds New Sarpy’s grade up (ahead of 80% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($51,989, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (8.5%) is left out: New Sarpy’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, New Sarpy could be anywhere from C to A−.
The commute from New Sarpy, by distance
About 15% 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.
Who works in New Sarpy, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 585 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 254 people come in from elsewhere.
About 920 people are in New Sarpy on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
11% of working residents work in New Orleans
Where New Sarpy clocks in
11% of workers
8% 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.
New Sarpy makes things: 62% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Sarpy, 2014 → 2024: 125 → 263. 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 New Sarpy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from New Sarpy: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Sarpy workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 601 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.
In New Sarpy, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Sarpy is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 601 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). 10.5% of New Sarpy households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of New Sarpy’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, New Sarpy is 1,707th among 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,705 | North Union Township PA | 1,412 | $71K | 6.4% | 3.4% | 1% | B− |
| 1,706 | Hazelhurst WI | 1,323 | $85K | 5.1% | 2.0% | 4% | B− |
| 1,707 | New Sarpy LA | 1,247 | $52K | 9.4% | 8.5% | 2% | B− |
| 1,708 | East Bangor PA | 1,101 | $81K | 15.7% | 4.8% | <1% | B− |
| 1,709 | Warsaw VA | 1,692 | $85K | 6.5% | 1.4% | 11% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 New Sarpy, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
The towns around New Sarpy
The biggest share goes to Hahnville (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of New Sarpy’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 New Sarpy: questions
What is the median household income in New Sarpy?
$51,989 (±$9,845) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Sarpy?
9.4%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Sarpy?
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 New Sarpy work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Orleans (11%, 27 mi), Luling (10%, 6 mi), Metairie (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is New Sarpy walkable?
New Sarpy is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Sarpy without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from New Sarpy, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Sarpy
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.