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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Jackson St / N Shattuck St median real estate price is $163,516, which is less expensive than 71.2% of Louisiana neighborhoods and 85.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Jackson St / N Shattuck St is currently $1,319, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 57.9% of Louisiana neighborhoods.

Jackson St / N Shattuck St is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Jackson St / N Shattuck St real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Jackson St / N Shattuck St neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Jackson St / N Shattuck St. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 38.9%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 97.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods dominated by new construction that is not yet occupied. But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.

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 Lake Charles, the Jackson St / N Shattuck St neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

The Jackson St / N Shattuck St neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in the United States. Also of note, 92.8% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.

In addition, one of the most interesting things about the Jackson St / N Shattuck St neighborhood is that it has a greater concentration of residents who live alone than most all neighborhoods in America. With 51.3% of the households here made up of people living alone, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this is a larger proportion of people living alone than in 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

There are more people living in the Jackson St / N Shattuck St neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (47.5%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the Jackson St / N Shattuck St neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 38.9%, which is higher than 97.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the Jackson St / N Shattuck St neighborhood has more Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 24.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry.

Jackson St / N Shattuck St is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.2% 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 95.7% 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 Jackson St / N Shattuck St neighborhood in Lake Charles are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 99.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 92.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 99.8% 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 Jackson St / N Shattuck St neighborhood, 52.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (15.1%), and 5.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Jackson St / N Shattuck St neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Some people also speak French (3.2%).

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 Jackson St / N Shattuck St neighborhood in Lake Charles, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Haitian (24.1%). There are also a number of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.3%), and residents who report African roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 Jackson St / N Shattuck St neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (62.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.9%) 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 (17.7%) and 7.4% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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