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Slaughter, LA

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Overview


Slaughter is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,001 people and just one neighborhood, Slaughter is the 229th largest community in Louisiana.

Slaughter real estate is some of the most expensive in Louisiana, although Slaughter house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Slaughter is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Slaughter is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Slaughter who work in healthcare (19.21%), office and administrative support (7.95%), and teaching (7.51%).

Also of interest is that Slaughter has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

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, Slaughter is worth considering.

One downside of living in Slaughter is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Slaughter, the average commute to work is 36.89 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Slaughter 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 terms of college education, Slaughter is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.17% of adults 25 and older in Slaughter have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Slaughter in 2018 was $35,465, which is wealthy relative to Louisiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,860 for a family of four.

The people who call Slaughter home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Slaughter residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Slaughter include French, German, English, Italian, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Slaughter is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.2% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

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 Slaughter are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.1% 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, 33.1% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.1%), and 15.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.6%).

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 Slaughter, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (6.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.5%), and residents who report English roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (27.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (86.4%) 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 (9.1%) . 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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