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Mooringsport, LA

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Overview


Mooringsport is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 715 people and just one neighborhood, Mooringsport is the 262nd largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mooringsport is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mooringsport is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mooringsport who work in office and administrative support (14.20%), food service (9.47%), and sales jobs (8.88%).

Of important note, Mooringsport is also a town of artists. Mooringsport has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Mooringsport’s character.

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, Mooringsport has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mooringsport a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Mooringsport is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mooringsport, the average commute to work is 30.86 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Mooringsport 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

In Mooringsport, just 6.18% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Mooringsport in 2018 was $19,854, 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 $79,416 for a family of four.

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

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

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.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.1% 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.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Mooringsport are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 39.7% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 12.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households.

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 Mooringsport, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (8.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report French roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.4%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (15.0%) . 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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