Calhoun is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 670 people and two associated neighborhoods, Calhoun is the 267th largest community in Louisiana.Calhoun is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 89.22% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Calhoun is a town of managers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Calhoun who work in food service (29.34%), business and financial occupations (23.35%), and sales jobs (20.36%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.17% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. 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!) Calhoun 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. Calhoun has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Calhoun than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Calhoun may be for you. Calhoun is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.Calhoun is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 44.26% of adults in Calhoun have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher. The per capita income in Calhoun in 2022 was $41,760, which is wealthy relative to Louisiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $167,040 for a family of four. Calhoun is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Calhoun home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Calhoun residents report their race to be White. Calhoun also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.49% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Calhoun include French, English, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian. The most common language spoken in Calhoun is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
