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Erath, LA

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Overview


Erath is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,978 people and just one neighborhood, Erath is the 173rd largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Erath isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Erath are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Erath is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Erath who work in sales jobs (12.00%), office and administrative support (9.83%), and management occupations (8.55%).

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small town, Erath doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Erath overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Erath, 21.65% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Erath in 2018 was $23,279, 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 $93,116 for a family of four. However, Erath contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Erath is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Vietnamese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 7.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Louisiana. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 16.6% have French ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.5% 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 Erath are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 33.5% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.

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 Erath, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (16.6%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report German roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.3%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (9.7%) . 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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