Little Texas · Photo: Z28scrambler · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Paulina works elsewhere
168 jobs are based in Paulina, against 761 working residents. Jobs and income earn Paulina A; getting around on foot earns it D. 2.1% of residents live below the poverty line, against 18.9% across Louisiana.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Paulina at work: what stands out
Where Paulina’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Paulina is better than 87% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 65% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Paulina’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Paulina could be anywhere from B− to A+.
Who works in Paulina, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 750 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 157 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Paulina on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Lutcher
Where Paulina clocks in
Lines 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 Paulina’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Paulina, 2013 → 2023: 147 → 168. 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 Paulina’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Paulina: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Paulina workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 688 commuters (the 4% 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 many miles Paulina commutes
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.
Paulina is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Paulina is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Paulina near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 720 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). 4.3% of Paulina households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Paulina’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Paulina is 432nd among 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Bayou Gauche LA | 1,908 | $163K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 267 | Montz LA | 2,074 | $92K | 4.7% | 0.2% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 403 | Des Allemands LA | 2,382 | $88K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 430 | Winchester WI | 1,811 | $93K | 3.2% | 3.0% | 2% | A |
| 431 | Lincoln DE | 1,873 | $108K | 0.0% | 1.9% | 2% | A |
| 432 | Paulina LA | 1,785 | $89K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| 433 | Loganville PA | 1,442 | $95K | 4.2% | 2.4% | 1% | A |
| 434 | Laona Township IL | 1,265 | $110K | 0.0% | 23.4% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Paulina, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
Next door is work for 10% of Paulina
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Paulina workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paulina | – | A | D | 25 min | $88,839 |
| Grand Point | under 3% | B+ | C− | 26 min | $88,674 |
| North Vacherie | under 3% | D | D | 36 min | $37,083 |
| Lutcher | 10% | B− | B+ | 23 min | $60,375 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Lutcher. Darker towns draw more of Paulina’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 Paulina: questions
What is the median household income in Paulina?
$88,839 (±$61,512) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Paulina?
2.1%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Paulina?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Paulina work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lutcher (10%, 2 mi), Garyville (9%, 6 mi), Norco (5%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Paulina walkable?
Paulina is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Paulina without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Paulina, from the people who make the trip.
More of Paulina
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.