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Roseland, LA

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Overview


Roseland is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 895 people and just one neighborhood, Roseland is the 250th largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Roseland, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 71.36% of Roseland’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Roseland is a town of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Roseland who work in food service (9.79%), management occupations (5.25%), and sales jobs (2.86%).

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, Roseland is worth considering.

One downside of living in Roseland, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.17 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The population of Roseland has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.50% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Roseland in 2018 was $17,733, 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 $70,932 for a family of four. Roseland also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 43.42% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Roseland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.1% 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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (22.6%) than in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Roseland are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.1% 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, 35.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.4%), and 15.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.2%).

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 Roseland, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report Italian roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (59.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.4%) 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 (22.6%) . 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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