Work & commute · Garyville

Work & commute in Garyville, LA

Most working residents leave Garyville for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Laplace (10%), Reserve (9%) and New Orleans (9%). Half commute less than 26 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

48 of 690 working residents

Typical commute

26 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 642 Garyville residents head out of town to work, 48 work right here, and 1,937 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Garyville.

642live here, work elsewhere

48live and work here

1,937work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Garyville goes to work

Laplace9.4 mi away

10%68

Reserve4.7 mi away

9%62

New Orleans41.8 mi away

9%60

Garyville (in town)right here

7%48

Baton Rouge39.5 mi away

7%46

Metairie27.7 mi away

4%29

Kenner23 mi away

3%18

Gonzales20 mi away

2%11

Elmwood27.8 mi away

2%11

Paulina5.6 mi away

1%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%327

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

How far

How far Garyville commutes

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

31%

19%

41%

31%Under 10 mi

19%10–24 mi

41%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Garyville is a job hub

2.88jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Garyville are

1,985 jobs are based in Garyville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Garyville’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Garyville

1,985 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)78%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)14%

$1,250 a month or less3%

$1,251–$3,333 a month5%

Over $3,333 a month91%

Jobs Garyville residents hold

690 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+26%

Jobs based in Garyville, 2013 → 2023: 1,579 → 1,985. 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.