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.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cottonport - Evergreen is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.06% of the Cottonport - Evergreen workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 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%).
Cottonport - Evergreen ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.24% of people over 25 have a college 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.
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 Cottonport - Evergreen, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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 (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.