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Epps, LA

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Overview


Epps is a tiny village located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 346 people and just one neighborhood, Epps is the 301st largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Epps is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.86% of the Epps workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Epps is a village of managers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Epps who work in management occupations (20.00%), community and social services (8.57%), and farm management occupations (8.57%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Epps is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

One downside of living in Epps, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.63 minutes every day commuting to work.

Epps is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

Epps ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.31% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Epps in 2022 was $19,491, which is lower middle income relative to Louisiana, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $77,964 for a family of four. However, Epps contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Epps is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Epps home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Epps residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Epps also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.55% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Epps include Irish, Scottish, French, English, and German.

The most common language spoken in Epps is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French Creole.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Epps, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 95.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 38.4% 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, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 15 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Epps are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.2% 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, 36.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 34.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.3%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Epps, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report English roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.0%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (38.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (95.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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