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Lacassine, LA

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Overview


Lacassine is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 490 people and just one neighborhood, Lacassine is the 289th largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lacassine is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 58.76% of the Lacassine workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lacassine is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lacassine who work in business and financial occupations (41.24%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Lacassine is worth considering.

One downside of living in Lacassine is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lacassine, the average commute to work is 37.50 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Lacassine is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Lacassine isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small town, Lacassine does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Lacassine ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lacassine in 2022 was $26,627, 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 $106,508 for a family of four. Lacassine also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.31% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Lacassine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lacassine residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Lacassine include French, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

The most common language spoken in Lacassine is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.7% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.0% of all American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

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, 14.1% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 6.6% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.4% 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 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Lacassine are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.2% 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 64.0% of America'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, 32.3% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.8%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 93.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Lacassine, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (14.1%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (6.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (89.7%) 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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