About Oak Hills Place

Oak Hills Place is a somewhat small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 7,996 people and just one neighborhood, Oak Hills Place is the 80th largest community in Louisiana.

Oak Hills Place is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 90.44% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Oak Hills Place is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oak Hills Place who work in management occupations (14.41%), office and administrative support jobs (14.21%), and sales jobs (11.79%).

Of important note, Oak Hills Place is also a town of artists. Oak Hills Place has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Oak Hills Place's character.

For a small town, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in Oak Hills Place. This is not typical for most smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to Oak Hills Place.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Oak Hills Place is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Oak Hills Place is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Oak Hills Place a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Oak Hills Place has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Oak Hills Place's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Oak Hills Place is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Oak Hills Place 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. 98.68% 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.

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

Oak Hills Place Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Oak Hills Place is a pretty powerful place. 62.23% of the adults in Oak Hills Place have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Oak Hills Place in 2000 was $34,994, which is wealthy relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,976 for a family of four. However, Oak Hills Place contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Oak Hills Place is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Oak Hills Place home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Oak Hills Place is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Oak Hills Place include French, English, German, Irish, Italian, and French Canadian.

The most common language spoken in Oak Hills Place is English.