Photo: Smh2536 at English Wikipedia · Public domainPineville has lower household incomes than 88% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Pineville C; getting around on foot earns it B+. Below the poverty line: 21.1% of residents, against 18.9% across Louisiana. About one in seven work in Pineville itself; outside it, Alexandria draws the most (41%, 5 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 Pineville
41% of Pineville works in Alexandria
2,050 working residents, 41%, have their main job in Alexandria, 5 miles away across the town line. That’s 3 times as many as work in Pineville itself. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Pineville are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 26 across Louisiana. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Louisiana worker. Time on the road ↓
Pineville draws workers from far and wide
The 7,049 jobs in Pineville are filled from a wide area. Pineville’s own residents hold 10% and the ten next-biggest home towns 23%; the other 67% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Most Pineville residents work close to home
67% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Why Pineville gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pineville is better than 29% of U.S. towns, #73 of 161 in Louisiana. Unemployment holds Pineville’s grade up (3.3%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($49,774, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pineville could be anywhere from C− to B−.
The places Pineville commutes to
Where Pineville clocks in
41% of workers
2% of workers
2% 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.
From Pineville, about 17 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pineville workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,684 commuters (the 7% 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 in the region Pineville works
About 24% 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.
Who leaves Pineville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 4,331 residents head out to work, 706 work right here, and 6,343 people come in from elsewhere.
About 16,000 people are in Pineville on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.40 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What Pineville’s employers do
7,049 jobs are based in Pineville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pineville, 2013 → 2023: 7,560 → 7,049. 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 Pineville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Driving is how Pineville gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pineville is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #55 of 161 in Louisiana. Both inputs place Pineville 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 6,093 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). 11.2% of Pineville households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Pineville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pineville next to U.S. towns of 10,000 to 19,000: 1,780th of 2,227 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 315 | Belle Chasse LA | 10,934 | $115K | 6.1% | 2.5% | 16% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 656 | Mandeville LA | 12,918 | $94K | 7.1% | 2.9% | 16% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 766 | Moss Bluff LA | 12,482 | $92K | 8.9% | 1.1% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,778 | Waggaman LA | 11,330 | $68K | 24.5% | 8.5% | 3% | C |
| 1,779 | North Valley NM | 10,455 | $61K | 17.6% | 8.5% | 6% | C |
| 1,780 | Pineville LA | 13,967 | $50K | 21.1% | 3.3% | 14% | C |
| 1,781 | Levelland TX | 12,513 | $58K | 15.5% | 4.6% | 37% | C |
| 1,782 | Locust Grove GA | 14,610 | $75K | 15.9% | 9.9% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,227 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Pineville, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
Bordering towns draw 43% of Pineville’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pineville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pineville | – | C | B+ | 17 min | $49,774 |
| Alexandria | 41% | C− | A− | 17 min | $47,113 |
| Ball | 2% | C+ | A− | 20 min | $80,074 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Alexandria. Darker towns draw more of Pineville’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 Pineville: questions
What is the median household income in Pineville?
$49,774 (±$8,263) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pineville?
21.1%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pineville?
17 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pineville work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alexandria (41%, 5 mi), Baton Rouge (2%, 98 mi), Lafayette (2%, 82 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pineville walkable?
Pineville is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pineville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pineville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pineville
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.