Merryville is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 958 people and just one neighborhood, Merryville is the 236th largest community in Louisiana.
Merryville is a blue-collar town, with 39.69% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Merryville is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Merryville who work in office and administrative support (16.31%), maintenance occupations (13.23%), and sales jobs (6.15%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Merryville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Merryville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Merryville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Merryville may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Merryville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Merryville has a very low overall level of education: only 7.28% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Merryville in 2022 was $24,399, which is middle income relative to Louisiana, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,596 for a family of four. However, Merryville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Merryville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.84% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Merryville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Merryville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Merryville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Merryville include English, Irish, French, German, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Merryville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 46.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.9% of American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.8% 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, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 9 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.3% of 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 Merryville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 46.8% 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 20.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.
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 Merryville, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report English roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.0%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.9%) 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 (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.