Households in Urania have lower incomes than those in 91% of U.S. towns
Only 2% work in Urania; the top destination outside it is Jena (13%, 15 miles). The poverty rate is 15.4%; Louisiana has 18.9%. Jobs and income earn Urania D; getting around on foot earns it B−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Urania
Urania’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Urania is better than 6% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Urania’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.0%) is left out: Urania’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Urania could be anywhere from D− to C+.
The daily trip from Urania: about 46 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Urania workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 188 commuters (the 7% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Urania
On a workday 236 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 188 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 (0.80 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.
Out of Urania to work: where people go
Where Urania clocks in
13% 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 Urania’s employers do
194 jobs are based in Urania.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Urania, 2013 → 2023: 46 → 194. 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 Urania’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Urania
About 29% 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.
For most of Urania, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Urania is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 202 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). 7.5% of Urania households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Urania’s commuters take a bus or train.
Urania next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600: 3,827th of 4,312 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 489 | Lockport Heights LA | 1,481 | $126K | 7.5% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 707 | Mathews LA | 1,598 | $87K | 6.0% | 1.6% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,056 | Perry LA | 1,424 | $82K | 9.5% | 1.3% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,825 | Ohkay Owingeh NM | 1,194 | $47K | 23.6% | 2.6% | 10% | D |
| 3,826 | Flippin AR | 1,290 | $44K | 18.8% | 6.7% | 8% | D |
| 3,827 | Urania LA | 1,155 | $47K | 15.4% | 6.0% | 2% | D |
| 3,828 | Dobson NC | 1,474 | $44K | 22.4% | 4.9% | 17% | D |
| 3,829 | Shady Point OK | 1,010 | $52K | 24.3% | 5.4% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Urania, 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 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 Urania: questions
What is the median household income in Urania?
$47,083 (±$31,191) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Urania?
15.4%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Urania?
46 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Urania work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jena (13%, 15 mi), Olla (9%, 4 mi), Good Pine (3%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Urania walkable?
Urania is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Urania 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 Urania, from the people who make the trip.
More of Urania
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.