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Arcadia, LA

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Overview


Arcadia is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 2,580 people and just one neighborhood, Arcadia is the 146th largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Arcadia is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.32% of the Arcadia workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Arcadia is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Arcadia who work in healthcare suport services (11.11%), maintenance occupations (9.68%), and management occupations (8.26%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Arcadia has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Arcadia a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.34 minutes getting to work every day.

Arcadia is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In Arcadia, just 12.65% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Arcadia in 2022 was $22,998, which is lower middle income relative to Louisiana, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,992 for a family of four. However, Arcadia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Arcadia also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.57% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Arcadia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Arcadia, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (69.1%) than found in 98.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

In addition, there is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.1%) living in the neighborhood.

Also, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Arcadia is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in LA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.7% of the neighborhoods in Louisiana. If you are considering retiring to Louisiana, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

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 Arcadia are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 69.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.5% 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, 40.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.5%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

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 Arcadia, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (4.9%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (2.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.9%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (87.1%) 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 (12.9%) . 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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