Pleasure Bend has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hardly any stay in Pleasure Bend for work; outside it, Baton Rouge is the main destination (8%, 46 miles). Employers in Pleasure Bend report 9 jobs, against 105 working residents. 16% of workers work from home, against 8% across Louisiana.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Pleasure Bend, and who commutes in
On a workday 105 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 120 people are in Pleasure Bend on a workday afternoon, 44% 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.
Where people from Pleasure Bend work
Where Pleasure Bend clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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.
What Pleasure Bend’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pleasure Bend, 2013 → 2023: 29 → 9. 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 Pleasure Bend’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes to work from Pleasure Bend
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pleasure Bend workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 85 commuters (the 16% 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.
The distance from Pleasure Bend to work
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 Pleasure Bend: questions
What is the median household income in Pleasure Bend?
$68,958 (±$32,654) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pleasure Bend?
0.0%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pleasure Bend?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pleasure Bend work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Baton Rouge (8%, 46 mi), New Orleans (7%, 43 mi), Metairie (7%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pleasure Bend 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 Pleasure Bend, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pleasure Bend
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.