Baton Rouge

City Commute Profile

Baton Rouge, LA

Where Baton Rouge’s 86,896 resident workers go each day — 48.5% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is New Orleans.

LouisianaLODES 2023 data
70
Commute Score

70 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Baton Rouge at a glance
Employed Residents
86,896
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
13.2mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
48.5%
Share working within the area
Work from home
8.2%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
New Orleans
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Baton Rouge proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Baton Rouge commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Baton Rouge

86,896 commutes, one dot at a time

Baton Rouge

Where 86,896 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Baton Rouge, by worker count.

1Baton Rouge0.0 mi42,155
2New Orleans72.5 mi2,615
3Lafayette56.1 mi1,410
4Metairie65.4 mi1,295
5Oak Hills Place6.4 mi1,289
6Inniswold5.4 mi1,113
7Prairieville14.4 mi948
8Central9.1 mi873

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Baton Rouge.

1Baton Rouge0.0 mi42,155
2Central9.1 mi4,739
3New Orleans72.5 mi4,290
4Prairieville14.4 mi4,042
5Shenandoah8.4 mi3,387
6Zachary14.0 mi2,931
7Lafayette56.1 mi2,252
8Baker9.0 mi2,024

Top industries

The sectors that employ Baton Rouge’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance11.1%
EDEducational Services11.0%
PAPublic Administration10.6%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services9.5%
RTRetail Trade9.1%
COConstruction8.6%
AFAccommodation and Food Services8.5%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services7.2%
TRTransportation and Warehousing4.2%

Baton Rouge city profile

Who lives in Baton Rouge — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
222,771
Median age
31.5yrs
Median household income
$49,994
Median home value
$234,700
Median gross rent
$1,067/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
36.6%
Poverty rate
25.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Baton Rouge

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

5 providers · 1 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps100%
5 Gbps99%
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Baton Rouge

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).