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Baldwin, LA

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Overview


Baldwin is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,679 people and just one neighborhood, Baldwin is the 182nd largest community in Louisiana. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Baldwin, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Baldwin, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Baldwin’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Baldwin does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $29,592.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Baldwin is a blue-collar town, with 44.10% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Baldwin is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Baldwin who work in office and administrative support (13.10%), sales jobs (8.52%), and maintenance occupations (6.77%).

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!) Baldwin 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. Baldwin has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Baldwin than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Baldwin may be for you.

Baldwin 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

The citizens of Baldwin have a very low rate of college education: just 6.32% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Baldwin in 2022 was $21,891, 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 $87,564 for a family of four. However, Baldwin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Baldwin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 97.4% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

In addition, the neighborhood is unique for having just 6.8% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.8% of America's neighborhoods.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Baldwin are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 97.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 51.3% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 39.7% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.9%), and 15.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Baldwin, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (7.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (2.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (1.5%), along with some Mexican 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.5%) 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 (11.2%) . 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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