Prud'homme, Jean Pierre Emmanuel, Oakland Plantation · Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0About half of Point Place’s working residents commute to Natchitoches
A typical one-way commute from Point Place lasts 28 minutes (Louisiana 26, U.S. 26). 0% of workers work from home, next to 8% for Louisiana as a whole. Hardly any stay in Point Place for work; outside it, Natchitoches is the main destination (45%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Point Place: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 163 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.
About 320 people are in Point Place on a workday afternoon, 33% fewer than live here.
0.03 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Point Place’s working residents head each day
Where Point Place clocks in
45% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Point Place
5 jobs are based in Point Place.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Point Place, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 5. 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 Point Place’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes to work from Point Place
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Point Place workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 162 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.
The distance from Point Place to work
About 28% 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 Point Place: questions
What is the median household income in Point Place?
$37,429 (±$27,097) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Point Place?
4.6%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Point Place?
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 Point Place work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Point Place without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Point Place, from the people who make the trip.
More of Point Place
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.