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Gueydan, LA

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Overview


Gueydan is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,136 people and just one neighborhood, Gueydan is the 223rd largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Gueydan isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Gueydan are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gueydan is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gueydan who work in sales jobs (14.69%), management occupations (13.75%), and office and administrative support (13.44%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Gueydan is worth considering.

Being a small town, Gueydan does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Gueydan rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.50% of adults 25 and older in Gueydan have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Gueydan in 2018 was $21,744, which is lower middle income relative to Louisiana, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $86,976 for a family of four. However, Gueydan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Gueydan also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.71% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.1% 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 25 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.7% of America.

Diversity

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, 18.8% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 3.9% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.0% 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 98.1% 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 Gueydan are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.4% 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 53.0% of America'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, 46.4% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.0%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.0% of households. Some people also speak French (6.0%).

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 Gueydan, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (18.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (3.9%).

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (62.8%) 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 (11.8%) and 10.3% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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