Live Oaks Plantation · Photo: Z28scrambler · CC BY-SA 3.0Rosedale has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
The trip to work takes 16 minutes on average; Louisiana averages 26, the U.S. 26. Rosedale has 97 jobs, and 261 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Rosedale itself; outside it, Baton Rouge draws the most (21%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Rosedale: the figures worth knowing
Time on the road from Rosedale: about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rosedale workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 534 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.
How a workday changes Rosedale
On a workday 260 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 96 people come in from elsewhere.
About 470 people are in Rosedale on a workday afternoon, 26% 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 Rosedale work
Where Rosedale clocks in
21% of workers
8% of workers
5% 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.
Goods, not services: 96% of the jobs in Rosedale
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rosedale, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 97. 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 Rosedale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Rosedale, by distance
About 15% 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.
Rosedale and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rosedale workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosedale | – | — | — | 16 min | — |
| Grosse Tete | under 2% | — | — | 53 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Grosse Tete: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Rosedale’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 Rosedale: questions
What is the poverty rate in Rosedale?
10.2%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rosedale?
16 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rosedale work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Baton Rouge (21%, 20 mi), Lafayette (8%, 38 mi), Plaquemine (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Rosedale without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rosedale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rosedale
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.