Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Raceland works elsewhere
Only 5% stay in Raceland for work; outside it, Thibodaux is the main destination (12%, 12 miles). Employers in Raceland report 1,699 jobs, and 3,937 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Raceland C; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Raceland stands out on work
Inside Raceland’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Raceland is better than 28% of U.S. towns, #77 of 161 in Louisiana. Job access by car holds Raceland’s grade up (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.0%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Raceland could be anywhere from D to B.
About 28 minutes each way for Raceland’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Raceland workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,022 commuters (the 2% 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.
Who leaves Raceland for work, and who comes in
On a workday 3,739 residents head out to work, 198 work right here, and 1,501 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,300 people are in Raceland on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Commuting out of Raceland: the destinations
Where Raceland clocks in
12% 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.
What Raceland’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Raceland, 2013 → 2023: 2,116 → 1,699. 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 Raceland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Raceland
About 19% 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.
Most trips from Raceland start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Raceland is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns, #111 of 161 in Louisiana. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,113 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). 7.8% of Raceland households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Raceland’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 6,700 to 12,900, Raceland ranks 2,202nd of 2,790 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 181 | Addis LA | 7,679 | $108K | 3.2% | 1.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 354 | Belle Chasse LA | 10,934 | $115K | 6.1% | 2.5% | 16% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 859 | Moss Bluff LA | 12,482 | $92K | 8.9% | 1.1% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,200 | Beacon Square FL | 7,895 | $57K | 15.6% | 5.8% | 1% | C |
| 2,201 | Greenville MI | 9,256 | $63K | 11.5% | 7.4% | 18% | C |
| 2,202 | Raceland LA | 9,585 | $60K | 13.8% | 6.0% | 5% | C |
| 2,203 | Ware MA | 10,128 | $67K | 11.8% | 9.2% | 15% | C |
| 2,204 | Princeton IL | 7,674 | $62K | 12.7% | 5.4% | 32% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,790 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Raceland, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
Around Raceland: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Raceland’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 Raceland: questions
What is the median household income in Raceland?
$60,286 (±$11,345) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Raceland?
13.8%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Raceland?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Raceland work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Thibodaux (12%, 12 mi), Bayou Cane (5%, 10 mi), New Orleans (4%, 48 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Raceland walkable?
Raceland is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Raceland without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Raceland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Raceland
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.