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La Salle - Gilcrest, CO

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Overview


La Salle - Gilcrest is a somewhat small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 5,072 people and just one neighborhood, La Salle - Gilcrest is the 89th largest community in Colorado.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in La Salle - Gilcrest, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.86% of La Salle - Gilcrest’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, La Salle - Gilcrest is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Salle - Gilcrest who work in management occupations (10.93%), food service (9.21%), and office and administrative support (8.86%).

Also of interest is that La Salle - Gilcrest has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The citizens of La Salle - Gilcrest are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.54% of adults in La Salle - Gilcrest have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in La Salle - Gilcrest in 2018 was $36,436, which is middle income relative to Colorado, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $145,744 for a family of four. However, La Salle - Gilcrest contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

La Salle - Gilcrest is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call La Salle - Gilcrest home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Salle - Gilcrest residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. La Salle - Gilcrest also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 41.58% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in La Salle - Gilcrest include German, English, Irish, Swedish, and Norwegian.

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

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.1% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in La Salle - Gilcrest are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.4% of America'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, 37.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.7%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (30.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in La Salle - Gilcrest, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (35.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (22.4%), and residents who report English roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.4%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.3%) 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 (15.6%) . 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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