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%).

You will also find that a lot of people in La Salle work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

La Salle is a very car-oriented town. 96.54% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because La Salle is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. La Salle has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

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

La Salle Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of La Salle rank slightly lower than the national average. 12.65% of adults 25 and older in La Salle have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 14.96% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

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.