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Leonville is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 876 people and just one neighborhood, Leonville is the 251st largest community in Louisiana.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Leonville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.46% of the Leonville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Leonville is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Leonville who work in sales jobs (11.53%), computer science and math (11.53%), and teaching (9.51%).
Also of interest is that Leonville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
One downside of living in Leonville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.99 minutes every day commuting to work.
Leonville is a very car-oriented town. 96.96% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Leonville is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Leonville has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Being a small town, Leonville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The education level of Leonville citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.80% of adults in Leonville have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Leonville in 2022 was $14,710, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $58,840 for a family of four. However, Leonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Leonville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Leonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leonville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Leonville include French Canadian, French, Irish, Italian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Leonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Modes of Transportation
Our research reveals that 90.9% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Length of Commute
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.7% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of all neighborhoods in America.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 3.4% have Ukrainian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
The Neighbors
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 Leonville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.0% 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 61.5% of America'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, 37.1% 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 36.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.6%), and 10.8% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
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 87.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Spanish and French.
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 Leonville, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French Canadian (21.6%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report German roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.9%), along with some Ukrainian ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 (28.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (11.7%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (90.9%) 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
