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Campti, LA

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Overview


Campti is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 887 people and just one neighborhood, Campti is the 248th largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Campti, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.33% of Campti’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Campti is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Campti who work in office and administrative support (20.62%), healthcare suport services (12.37%), and sales jobs (9.28%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Campti, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.53 minutes every day commuting to work.

Campti is a small town, 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 Campti has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.03% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Campti in 2018 was $11,124, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $44,496 for a family of four. Campti also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.83% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Campti is English. Other important languages spoken here include Urdu and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Campti, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 46.9% 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, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

One of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.1% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 3.1% have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Campti are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 35.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 34.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.3%), and 11.4% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.

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 Campti, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (13.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.3%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (14.2%) . 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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