Gramercy is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 2,794 people and just one neighborhood, Gramercy is the 140th largest community in Louisiana. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Gramercy, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Gramercy, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Gramercy’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Gramercy does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $81,438.00.
When you are in Gramercy, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.77% of Gramercy’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gramercy is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gramercy who work in office and administrative support (9.87%), sales jobs (9.48%), and healthcare (7.94%).
As is often the case in a small town, Gramercy doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Gramercy with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.89% of adults in Gramercy have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Gramercy in 2022 was $31,835, 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 $127,340 for a family of four. However, Gramercy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Gramercy is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gramercy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gramercy residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Gramercy include French, German, French Canadian, Irish, and Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Gramercy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 13.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Louisiana. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 7.2% have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.6% 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 Gramercy are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 40.9% 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 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.2%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.4%).
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 Gramercy, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (7.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.2%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (2.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (1.5%).
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.0%) 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 (9.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.