Work & commute · Choudrant

Work & commute in Choudrant, LA

Most working residents leave Choudrant for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Ruston (37%), Monroe (10%) and Shreveport (6%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

21 of 438 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 417 Choudrant residents head out of town to work, 21 work right here, and 317 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Choudrant.

417live here, work elsewhere

21live and work here

317work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Choudrant goes to work

Ruston6.1 mi away

37%160

Monroe26.4 mi away

10%42

Shreveport73.7 mi away

6%26

Choudrant (in town)right here

5%21

West Monroe22.1 mi away

3%13

Bossier City65.6 mi away

2%9

Arcadia22.8 mi away

1%6

Baton Rouge166.4 mi away

1%6

Grambling10.4 mi away

1%4

Alexandria85.9 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%147

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Choudrant commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

48%

20%

24%

48%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Choudrant is balanced between jobs and homes

0.77jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Choudrant are

338 jobs are based in Choudrant. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Choudrant’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Choudrant

338 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)32%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Choudrant residents hold

438 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+6%

Jobs based in Choudrant, 2013 → 2023: 318 → 338. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.