Loreauville is a tiny village located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 641 people and just one neighborhood, Loreauville is the 269th largest community in Louisiana.
Loreauville real estate is some of the most expensive in Louisiana, although Loreauville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some villages, Loreauville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Loreauville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Loreauville is a village of managers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Loreauville who work in business and financial occupations (16.86%), office and administrative support (11.05%), and teaching (7.85%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 22.67% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Being a small village, Loreauville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Loreauville rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.99% of adults 25 and older in Loreauville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Loreauville in 2022 was $24,020, which is middle income relative to Louisiana, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,080 for a family of four. However, Loreauville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Loreauville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 43.63% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Loreauville is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Loreauville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Loreauville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Loreauville include Acadian/Cajun, French, Italian, Canadian, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Loreauville is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and French Creole.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 41.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.9% of all American neighborhoods.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 6.3% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Louisiana. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 4.6% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Loreauville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 22.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 33.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.4%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.2% of households. Some people also speak French (4.3%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Loreauville, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (15.7%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (4.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (5.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.