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Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Port Sulphur is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,677 people and just one neighborhood, Port Sulphur is the 194th largest community in Louisiana. Port Sulphur has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Port Sulphur, where the median household income is $31,325.00.
Occupations and Workforce
Port Sulphur is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Port Sulphur is a town of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Port Sulphur who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (17.03%), maintenance occupations (15.46%), and community and social services (13.50%).
Setting & Lifestyle
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Port Sulphur has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Port Sulphur has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Port Sulphur than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Port Sulphur may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Port Sulphur doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
In terms of college education, the citizens of Port Sulphur rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.16% of adults 25 and older in Port Sulphur 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 Port Sulphur in 2022 was $18,261, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,044 for a family of four. However, Port Sulphur contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Port Sulphur is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Port Sulphur home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Port Sulphur residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Port Sulphur include French, Italian, Acadian/Cajun, German, and Haitian.
The most common language spoken in Port Sulphur is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Real Estate
The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 88.3% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 100.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.
In addition, if you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the neighborhood. A whopping 85.1% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 98.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new. In fact, the concentration of newer homes here is so great that they completely dominate the landscape. In most neighborhoods, there is a mixture of ages of residential real estate, but here it is almost completely built during one time frame: 2000 through today.
Occupations
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Furthermore, there are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (61.4%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
People
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 27.1% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, the neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 17.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 4.1% have Native American ancestry.
The Neighbors
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 Port Sulphur are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.4% 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, 38.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions, with 32.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (30.7%), and 18.6% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Port Sulphur, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (17.7%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Native American roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Dominican ancestry (2.0%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (19.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
