Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Pioneer commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Louisiana has 8%. Pioneer has 22 jobs; 46 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Pioneer itself; outside it, Delhi draws the most (11%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Pioneer on a workday
On a workday 46 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Pioneer on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
The towns that employ Pioneer’s residents
Where Pioneer clocks in
11% of workers
9% of workers
7% 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.
Making and building: 32% of jobs based in Pioneer
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pioneer, 2013 → 2023: 55 → 22. 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 Pioneer’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Pioneer, about 14 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pioneer workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 209 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.
How far Pioneer’s workers travel
About 34% 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.
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 Pioneer: questions
What is the median household income in Pioneer?
$82,930 (±$36,497) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pioneer?
2.1%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pioneer?
14 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pioneer work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Delhi (11%, 20 mi), Oak Grove (9%, 9 mi), Ruston (7%, 71 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pioneer without a car?
0% 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 Pioneer, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pioneer
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.