About La Salle

La Salle is a very small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 3,823 people and just one neighborhood, La Salle is the 94th largest community in Colorado.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, La Salle is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.2% of the La Salle workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, La Salle is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Salle who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.63%), sales jobs (10.44%), and management occupations (5.78%).

Another important characteristic of La Salle is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

La Salle is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of La Salle isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.54% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

As is often the case in a small town, La Salle doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

La Salle Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in La Salle with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 14.96% for all communities. 12.65% of adults in La Salle have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in La Salle in 2000 was $18,317, which is middle income relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,268 for a family of four.

La Salle is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call La Salle home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in La Salle is White, followed by Asian. La Salle also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.47% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in La Salle include German, English, Irish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in La Salle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German.