Work & commute · Hackberry

Work & commute in Hackberry, LA

Most working residents leave Hackberry for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Lake Charles (13%), Sulphur (7%) and Cameron (7%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

86 of 505 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

14 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 419 Hackberry residents head out of town to work, 86 work right here, and 431 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hackberry.

419live here, work elsewhere

86live and work here

431work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hackberry goes to work

Hackberry (in town)right here

17%86

Lake Charles20.1 mi away

13%68

Sulphur18.6 mi away

7%36

Cameron13.7 mi away

7%36

Lafayette84.3 mi away

4%22

Carlyss14.8 mi away

3%14

Jennings48.4 mi away

2%10

Baton Rouge140 mi away

2%10

Beaumont, TX44.8 mi away

1%7

Crowley64.3 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%211

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

How far

How far Hackberry commutes

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

18%

44%

11%

27%

18%Under 10 mi

44%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hackberry is balanced between jobs and homes

1.02jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.02 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Hackberry are

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

Jobs based in Hackberry

517 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)53%

Trade, transport & utilities29%

Services (health, schools, offices…)18%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month12%

Over $3,333 a month81%

Jobs Hackberry residents hold

505 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+108%

Jobs based in Hackberry, 2013 → 2023: 248 → 517. 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.