Work & commute · Bay St. Louis

Work & commute in Bay St. Louis, MS

Most working residents leave Bay St. Louis for work: only 19% work in town. The top destinations are Gulfport (13%), Waveland (5%) and Biloxi (5%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

19%

639 of 3,431 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,792 Bay St. Louis residents head out of town to work, 639 work right here, and 3,145 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bay St. Louis.

2,792live here, work elsewhere

639live and work here

3,145work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bay St. Louis goes to work

Bay St. Louis (in town)right here

19%639

Gulfport18.5 mi away

13%462

Waveland2.8 mi away

5%175

Biloxi26.2 mi away

5%161

Hattiesburg68 mi away

3%114

New Orleans, LA39.1 mi away

3%91

Kiln7.8 mi away

2%64

Pass Christian7.2 mi away

2%63

Jackson146.6 mi away

2%63

Slidell, LA25.4 mi away

2%62

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%1,537

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

How far

How far Bay St. Louis commutes

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

35%

24%

15%

25%

35%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bay St. Louis is balanced between jobs and homes

1.10jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.10 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Bay St. Louis are

3,784 jobs are based in Bay St. Louis. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bay St. Louis’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Bay St. Louis

3,784 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)87%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs Bay St. Louis residents hold

3,431 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month48%

+5%

Jobs based in Bay St. Louis, 2013 → 2023: 3,602 → 3,784. 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.