Work & commute · St. Rose

Work & commute in St. Rose, LA

Most working residents leave St. Rose for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are New Orleans (15%), Metairie (13%) and Kenner (10%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

134 of 3,265 working residents

Typical commute

11 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 3,131 St. Rose residents head out of town to work, 134 work right here, and 6,186 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Rose.

3,131live here, work elsewhere

134live and work here

6,186work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Rose goes to work

New Orleans23.1 mi away

15%498

Metairie8.1 mi away

13%437

Kenner4.5 mi away

10%321

Elmwood7.2 mi away

6%204

Luling5.3 mi away

5%179

St. Rose (in town)right here

4%134

Baton Rouge59.3 mi away

4%132

Jefferson9.1 mi away

3%82

Hahnville7 mi away

2%63

Destrehan2.9 mi away

2%58

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%1,157

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

How far

How far St. Rose commutes

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

45%

31%

10%

14%

45%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Rose is a job hub

1.94jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Rose are

6,320 jobs are based in St. Rose. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Rose’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Rose

6,320 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities52%

Services (health, schools, offices…)30%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month72%

Jobs St. Rose residents hold

3,265 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month53%

−2%

Jobs based in St. Rose, 2013 → 2023: 6,469 → 6,320. 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.