Cottonport - Evergreen is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 4,053 people and just one neighborhood, Cottonport - Evergreen is the 109th largest community in Louisiana.
Cottonport - Evergreen is a blue-collar town, with 41.06% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cottonport - Evergreen is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cottonport - Evergreen who work in office and administrative support (19.21%), healthcare (8.06%), and management occupations (7.62%).
In terms of college education, Cottonport - Evergreen ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.24% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cottonport - Evergreen in 2022 was $15,620, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,480 for a family of four. However, Cottonport - Evergreen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cottonport - Evergreen is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cottonport - Evergreen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cottonport - Evergreen residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cottonport - Evergreen include French, Irish, German, English, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Cottonport - Evergreen is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Pacific Island languages.
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.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.6% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 96.8% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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, 16.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.0% 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 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Cottonport - Evergreen are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.6% 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, 40.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.0%), and 12.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 94.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.
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 Cottonport - Evergreen, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (16.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report German roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.0%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.6%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.