Photo: Robert Jones · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Sorrento works elsewhere
There are 456 jobs in Sorrento; 803 of its residents have a job. Sorrento grades A− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Sorrento apart
Why Sorrento gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Sorrento is better than 81% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($117,604, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (8.5%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sorrento could be anywhere from B− to A+.
How far it is to work from Sorrento
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Sorrento quiets down on a workday
On a workday 797 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 450 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Sorrento on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 2024, primary jobs.
17% of working residents work in Baton Rouge
Where Sorrento clocks in
17% of workers
11% 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 Sorrento’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sorrento, 2014 → 2024: 491 → 456. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sorrento’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Sorrento: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sorrento workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,069 commuters (the 8% 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.
Getting around Sorrento: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sorrento is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 6.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,162 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). 2.7% of Sorrento households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sorrento’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Sorrento is 639th among 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Bayou Gauche LA | 1,908 | $163K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 265 | Montz LA | 2,074 | $92K | 4.7% | 0.2% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 387 | Presquille LA | 2,062 | $112K | 1.1% | 14.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 637 | Rafter J Ranch WY | 1,293 | $161K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| 638 | North Redington Beach FL | 1,444 | $103K | 8.2% | 8.4% | 4% | A− |
| 639 | Sorrento LA | 1,622 | $118K | 8.5% | 3.2% | 1% | A− |
| 640 | Union Township IN | 1,877 | $89K | 6.6% | 2.9% | 3% | A− |
| 641 | High Prairie Township KS | 2,135 | $103K | 8.5% | 2.4% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Sorrento, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Sorrento: questions
What is the median household income in Sorrento?
$117,604 (±$36,442) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sorrento?
8.5%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sorrento?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sorrento work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Baton Rouge (17%, 24 mi), St. George (12%, 16 mi), Gonzales (11%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Sorrento walkable?
Sorrento is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sorrento 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 Sorrento, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sorrento
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.