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Golden Meadow, LA

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Overview


Golden Meadow is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,693 people and just one neighborhood, Golden Meadow is the 184th largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Golden Meadow isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Golden Meadow are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Golden Meadow is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Golden Meadow who work in office and administrative support (18.47%), sales jobs (16.88%), and management occupations (8.67%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.11% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Golden Meadow has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Golden Meadow a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Golden Meadow with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.11% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Golden Meadow in 2018 was $26,993, which is upper middle income relative to Louisiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $107,972 for a family of four. However, Golden Meadow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Golden Meadow home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Golden Meadow residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Golden Meadow include French Canadian, French, Italian, Acadian/Cajun, and English.

The most common language spoken in Golden Meadow is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.

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.

People

has the amazing distinction of housing more same sex couples living together than 97.4% of neighborhoods in the U.S. If you are seeking such a neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that this is one place that you should consider.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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, 25.2% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 10.7% have French ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 20.1% 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 99.7% 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 Golden Meadow are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.3% 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, 31.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.4%), and 14.1% in executive, management, and professional 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 75.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Golden Meadow, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French Canadian (25.2%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.2%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (53.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (65.7%) 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 (21.3%) . 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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