Photo: Z28scrambler · CC BY-SA 3.0Work and commuting in Slaughter
Slaughter has 417 jobs, against 396 working residents. Only 2% work in Slaughter itself; outside it, Baton Rouge draws the most (27%, 20 miles). The trip to work takes 36 minutes on average, next to 26 for Louisiana and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Slaughter
Slaughter workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 36 minutes each way, against 26 across Louisiana. Over a year that’s about 276 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Slaughter makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Slaughter are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Slaughter residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 24%. The jobs ↓
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 396 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Time on the road from Slaughter: about 36 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Slaughter workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 478 commuters (the 4% 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.
Slaughter works in goods: 35% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Slaughter, 2013 → 2023: 292 → 417. 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 Slaughter’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Slaughter for work, and who comes in
On a workday 388 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 409 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.05 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.
Where Slaughter’s working residents head each day
Where Slaughter clocks in
27% of workers
9% 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.
Half of Slaughter commutes less than 20 miles
About 18% 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 Slaughter: questions
What is the median household income in Slaughter?
$72,438 (±$17,774) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Slaughter?
10.4%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Slaughter?
36 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Slaughter work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Baton Rouge (27%, 20 mi), Zachary (9%, 5 mi), Central (3%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Slaughter without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Slaughter, from the people who make the trip.
More of Slaughter
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.