Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Simsboro commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Simsboro itself; outside it, Ruston draws the most (29%, 9 miles). 29 jobs are based in Simsboro, against 310 working residents. At home: 1% of workers have no commute at all (Louisiana 8%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Simsboro, in brief
Simsboro is a place people come home to
There are 29 jobs based in Simsboro, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Simsboro has about 520 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Simsboro and Ruston trade workers both ways
Ruston is the top workplace for Simsboro residents (29%) and also where the most people who work in Simsboro come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Simsboro workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 26 across Louisiana. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 310 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Simsboro on a workday afternoon
On a workday 309 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 28 people come in from elsewhere.
About 520 people are in Simsboro on a workday afternoon, 35% 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 Simsboro’s working residents head each day
Where Simsboro clocks in
29% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
From Simsboro, about 33 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Simsboro workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 333 commuters (the 1% 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 kinds of work in Simsboro
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Simsboro, 2013 → 2023: 29 → 29. 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 Simsboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Simsboro
About 25% 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 Simsboro: questions
What is the median household income in Simsboro?
$31,658 (±$6,386) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Simsboro?
29.5%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Simsboro?
33 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Simsboro work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ruston (29%, 9 mi), Arcadia (8%, 8 mi), Shreveport (8%, 59 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Simsboro 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 Simsboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Simsboro
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.