Labadieville is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,715 people and just one neighborhood, Labadieville is the 190th largest community in Louisiana.
Unlike some towns, Labadieville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Labadieville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Labadieville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Labadieville who work in office and administrative support (25.00%), sales jobs (21.48%), and management occupations (10.93%).
Labadieville is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Labadieville, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town.
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!) Labadieville 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. Labadieville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Labadieville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Labadieville may be for you.
One downside of living in Labadieville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Labadieville, the average commute to work is 32.81 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Labadieville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Labadieville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.36% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Labadieville in 2022 was $32,439, which is upper middle income relative to Louisiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $129,756 for a family of four. However, Labadieville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Labadieville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Labadieville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Labadieville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Labadieville include French, Other Arab, Acadian/Cajun, French Canadian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Labadieville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 41.9% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.9% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 5.5% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.4% 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 Labadieville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 36.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.0%), and 15.0% 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 92.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Arabic 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 Labadieville, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (13.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (3.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (85.1%) 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 (10.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.