New Llano is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 2,085 people and just one neighborhood, New Llano is the 164th largest community in Louisiana.
New Llano is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, New Llano is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Llano who work in sales jobs (17.96%), office and administrative support (13.23%), and food service (7.42%).
New Llano is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around New Llano, 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.
Also of interest is that New Llano has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The citizens of New Llano are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.69% of adults in New Llano have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in New Llano in 2022 was $26,223, which is middle income relative to Louisiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,892 for a family of four. However, New Llano contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Llano is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call New Llano home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Llano residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. New Llano also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.68% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in New Llano include German, Italian, English, Irish, and British.
The most common language spoken in New Llano is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.
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 New Llano, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
With 4.0% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 98.2% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
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 New Llano are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.9% 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, 33.6% 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 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.4%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.7%).
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 New Llano, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (7.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.6%), and residents who report English roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (3.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (48.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.8%) 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 (5.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.