Des Allemands - Paradis is a somewhat small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 5,211 people and just one neighborhood, Des Allemands - Paradis is the 85th largest community in Louisiana.
Des Allemands - Paradis real estate is some of the most expensive in Louisiana, although Des Allemands - Paradis house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Des Allemands - Paradis is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Des Allemands - Paradis is a town of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Des Allemands - Paradis who work in healthcare (11.53%), management occupations (11.37%), and office and administrative support (8.17%).
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!) Des Allemands - Paradis 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. Des Allemands - Paradis has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Des Allemands - Paradis than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Des Allemands - Paradis may be for you.
One downside of living in Des Allemands - Paradis, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.70 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Des Allemands - Paradis does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Des Allemands - Paradis is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.29% of adults 25 and older in Des Allemands - Paradis have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Des Allemands - Paradis in 2022 was $59,110, which is wealthy relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $236,440 for a family of four.
Des Allemands - Paradis is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Des Allemands - Paradis home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Des Allemands - Paradis residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Des Allemands - Paradis include French, German, Irish, French Canadian, and Acadian/Cajun.
The most common language spoken in Des Allemands - Paradis is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Our research reveals that 94.3% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.3% 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, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 40 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.0% of America.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 88.5% of the neighborhoods in LA. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students. In addition to being an excellent choice for college students, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 19.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 5.9% have French Canadian ancestry.
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 Des Allemands - Paradis are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 84.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.0% 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 58.0% of America'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, 37.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. 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 sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.6%), and 11.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Some people also speak French (2.2%).
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 Des Allemands - Paradis, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (19.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (5.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.8%), among others.
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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (94.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.