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Spearsville, LA

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Overview


Spearsville is a tiny village located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 122 people and just one neighborhood, Spearsville is the 330th largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Spearsville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 54.37% of Spearsville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Spearsville is a village of construction workers and builders, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spearsville who work in architecture and engineering (14.56%), sales jobs (5.83%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (4.85%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Spearsville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

Residents will find that the village 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, Spearsville is worth considering.

One downside of living in Spearsville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.80 minutes every day commuting to work.

Spearsville is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Spearsville has a very low overall level of education: only 8.82% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Spearsville in 2018 was $35,466, which is wealthy relative to Louisiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,864 for a family of four. However, Spearsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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.

People

The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.7% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 18 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Spearsville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.8% 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, 34.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.8%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.4%).

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 Spearsville, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.1%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (7.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.6%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 (28.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (12.9%) . 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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