Photo: Chillin662 · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Morgan City commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
A typical one-way commute lasts 20 minutes; Mississippi averages 26, the U.S. 26. Morgan City has 11 jobs, against 93 working residents. Hardly any work in Morgan City itself; outside it, Greenwood draws the most (31%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Morgan City quiets down on a workday
On a workday 93 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Morgan City on a workday afternoon, 44% 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.
The towns that employ Morgan City’s residents
Where Morgan City clocks in
31% of workers
3% 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.
The kinds of work in Morgan City
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Morgan City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Morgan City: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Morgan City workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 54 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Mississippi: 87% 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.
Morgan City’s commute, mile by mile
About 28% 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 Morgan City: questions
What is the poverty rate in Morgan City?
31.5%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Morgan City?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Morgan City work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenwood (31%, 12 mi), Mississippi Valley State University (10%, 10 mi), Itta Bena (3%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Morgan City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Morgan City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Morgan City
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.