Amite is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 4,044 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Amite is the 113th largest community in Louisiana.
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Amite has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Amite has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Amite has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Amite than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Amite may be for you.
Being a small town, Amite does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Amite who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.49% of the adults in Amite have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Amite in 2018 was $23,263, which is middle income relative to Louisiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,052 for a family of four. However, Amite contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Amite is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Amite home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Amite residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Amite include Irish, German, Italian, French, and English.
The most common language spoken in Amite is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Vietnamese.