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Welsh - Roanoke, LA

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Overview


Welsh - Roanoke is a somewhat small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 5,115 people and just one neighborhood, Welsh - Roanoke is the 89th largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Welsh - Roanoke is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Welsh - Roanoke is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Welsh - Roanoke who work in sales jobs (12.17%), management occupations (11.08%), and teaching (9.48%).

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small town, Welsh - Roanoke doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Welsh - Roanoke with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.37% of adults in Welsh - Roanoke have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Welsh - Roanoke in 2022 was $26,686, which is middle income relative to Louisiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,744 for a family of four. However, Welsh - Roanoke contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Welsh - Roanoke is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Welsh - Roanoke home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Welsh - Roanoke residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Welsh - Roanoke include French, French Canadian, Irish, Italian, and English.

The most common language spoken in Welsh - Roanoke is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 41.9% 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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 90.1% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 12.2% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.8% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 17.7% have French ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.2% 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 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Welsh - Roanoke are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.5% 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, 32.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.6%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Welsh - Roanoke, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (17.7%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.3%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (90.1%) 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 (8.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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