Krotz Springs is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 887 people and just one neighborhood, Krotz Springs is the 242nd largest community in Louisiana.
When you are in Krotz Springs, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 55.26% of Krotz Springs’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Krotz Springs is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Krotz Springs who work in sales jobs (19.55%), management occupations (7.14%), and business and financial occupations (6.77%).
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, Krotz Springs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Krotz Springs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Krotz Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Krotz Springs has a very low overall level of education: only 8.73% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Krotz Springs in 2022 was $35,966, which is wealthy relative to Louisiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $143,864 for a family of four. However, Krotz Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Krotz Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Krotz Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Krotz Springs include French Canadian, English, Irish, French, and German.
The most common language spoken in Krotz Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.
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 Krotz Springs, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 14 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
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.
Our research reveals that 88.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 35.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 13.7% have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.9% 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 96.6% 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 Krotz Springs are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.2% 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 54.5% of America'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, 40.0% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.1%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 95.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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 Krotz Springs, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French Canadian (35.4%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report English roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.8%), along with some German ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.7%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.