LaMoure is a tiny city located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 760 people and just one neighborhood, LaMoure is the 93rd largest community in North Dakota.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, LaMoure is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, LaMoure is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in LaMoure who work in teaching (12.89%), office and administrative support (12.63%), and sales jobs (11.86%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, LaMoure has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes LaMoure a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of LaMoure is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.25 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, LaMoure does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, LaMoure is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.24% of adults in LaMoure have a college degree.
The per capita income in LaMoure in 2022 was $35,652, which is middle income relative to North Dakota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,608 for a family of four. However, LaMoure contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call LaMoure home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of LaMoure residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in LaMoure include German, Norwegian, English, Russian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in LaMoure is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 LaMoure, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 4 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 36.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
If you are planning to retire in North Dakota, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in North Dakota, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.1% of neighborhoods in ND. If a North Dakota retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 26.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 53.5% have German ancestry.
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 LaMoure are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.0% 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 75.2% of America'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, 41.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 22.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.7%), and 13.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% 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 LaMoure, ND, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (53.5%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (26.5%), and residents who report Swedish roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.2%) 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 (9.5%) and 5.4% 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.