Photo: Public domain · Public domainLafayette draws about half of Scott’s working residents
Jobs and income earn Scott C; getting around on foot earns it C+. Household incomes here are lower than in 79% of U.S. towns. The average commute takes 25 minutes each way (Louisiana 26, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Scott
Nearly half of Scott works in Lafayette
1,473 working residents, 45%, have their main job in Lafayette, 4.5 miles away across the town line. That’s 8 times as many as work in Scott itself. The commute map ↓
Most Scott residents work close to home
61% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Where Scott’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Scott is better than 32% of U.S. towns, #68 of 161 in Louisiana. Job access by car holds Scott’s grade up (ahead of 75% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($56,299, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Scott could be anywhere from C− to B.
Where people from Scott work
Where Scott clocks in
45% of workers
4% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Scott
About 22% 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.
A workday in Scott: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 3,068 residents head out to work, 213 work right here, and 4,054 people come in from elsewhere.
About 11,000 people are in Scott on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What Scott’s employers do
4,267 jobs are based in Scott.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Scott, 2013 → 2023: 3,813 → 4,267. 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 Scott’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Scott: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Scott workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,814 commuters (the 9% 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.
For most of Scott, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Scott is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns, #103 of 161 in Louisiana. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.3% across Louisiana.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,177 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). 8.1% of Scott households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Scott’s commuters take a bus or train.
Scott next to U.S. towns of 6,700 to 13,000: 2,119th of 2,816 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 182 | Addis LA | 7,679 | $108K | 3.2% | 1.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 357 | Belle Chasse LA | 10,934 | $115K | 6.1% | 2.5% | 16% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 739 | Mandeville LA | 12,918 | $94K | 7.1% | 2.9% | 16% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,117 | Angier NC | 9,410 | $52K | 10.6% | 5.1% | 3% | C |
| 2,118 | Paw Paw Township MI | 6,884 | $61K | 13.7% | 5.4% | 14% | C |
| 2,119 | Scott LA | 9,635 | $56K | 15.2% | 5.9% | 6% | C |
| 2,120 | Hanover Township PA | 11,781 | $61K | 19.0% | 5.1% | 15% | C |
| 2,121 | Van Wert OH | 11,200 | $55K | 14.2% | 4.2% | 39% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,816 | 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 Scott, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
Scott and its neighbors: 45% work next door
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Lafayette. Darker towns draw more of Scott’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 Scott: questions
What is the median household income in Scott?
$56,299 (±$6,747) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Scott?
15.2%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Scott?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Scott work?
6% work in town.
Is Scott walkable?
Scott is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Scott without a car?
0% 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 Scott, from the people who make the trip.
More of Scott
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.