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Port Barre, LA

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Overview


Port Barre is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,752 people and just one neighborhood, Port Barre is the 187th largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Port Barre, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.91% of Port Barre’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Port Barre is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Port Barre who work in sales jobs (15.70%), food service (14.34%), and healthcare suport services (6.18%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Port Barre ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.19% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Port Barre in 2018 was $17,306, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $69,224 for a family of four. However, Port Barre contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (24.6%) than in 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.6% 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.

People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 6.0% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.3% of America'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, 15.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 6.6% have French ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.5% 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 97.2% 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 Port Barre are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.2% of U.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, 36.5% 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 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.4%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.7% of households. Some people also speak French (4.5%).

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 Port Barre, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French Canadian (15.5%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (6.6%).

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 (30.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (73.3%) 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 (24.6%) . 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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