Work & commute · New Roads

Work & commute in New Roads, LA

About one in 5 of New Roads’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Baton Rouge (15%), Lafayette (3%) and Zachary (2%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

22%

399 of 1,774 working residents

Typical commute

24 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 1,375 New Roads residents head out of town to work, 399 work right here, and 2,355 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in New Roads.

1,375live here, work elsewhere

399live and work here

2,355work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where New Roads goes to work

New Roads (in town)right here

22%399

Baton Rouge26 mi away

15%273

Lafayette48.1 mi away

3%57

Zachary17.3 mi away

2%32

New Orleans100.9 mi away

2%27

St. Francisville7.6 mi away

1%25

Ventress1.8 mi away

1%23

Prairieville39.6 mi away

1%23

Port Allen22.8 mi away

1%17

Hammond60.8 mi away

1%17

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%881

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

How far

How far New Roads commutes

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

33%

20%

30%

18%

33%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

30%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

New Roads is a job hub

1.55jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in New Roads are

2,754 jobs are based in New Roads. Here is what they are, next to the jobs New Roads’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in New Roads

2,754 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs New Roads residents hold

1,774 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+21%

Jobs based in New Roads, 2013 → 2023: 2,268 → 2,754. 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.