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Sorrento, LA

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Overview


Sorrento is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,561 people and just one neighborhood, Sorrento is the 201st largest community in Louisiana. Much of the housing stock in Sorrento was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Sorrento economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Sorrento, where the median household income is $94,766.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Sorrento is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Sorrento is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Sorrento who work in sales jobs (30.34%), office and administrative support (13.00%), and management occupations (6.01%).

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, Sorrento is worth considering.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Sorrento are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.29% of adults in Sorrento have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Sorrento in 2022 was $36,715, which is wealthy relative to Louisiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,860 for a family of four. However, Sorrento contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sorrento is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sorrento home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sorrento residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sorrento include French, French Canadian, Scots-Irish, Italian, and German.

The most common language spoken in Sorrento is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

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, 13.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 3.1% have French Canadian ancestry.

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 Sorrento are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 34.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.1% of U.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, 38.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 33.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.0%), and 11.4% 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 88.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Sorrento, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (13.4%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (4.7%), and residents who report German roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (66.9%) 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 (14.0%) . 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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