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Bayou La Batre is a very small coastal city (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,163 people and just one neighborhood, Bayou La Batre is the 209th largest community in Alabama. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Bayou La Batre, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Bayou La Batre, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Bayou La Batre’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Bayou La Batre does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $40,000.00.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Bayou La Batre, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 51.96% of Bayou La Batre’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Bayou La Batre is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bayou La Batre who work in food service (16.25%), maintenance occupations (7.24%), and management occupations (6.52%).
Setting & Lifestyle
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Bayou La Batre has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Bayou La Batre has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bayou La Batre than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bayou La Batre may be for you.
Bayou La Batre is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.
As is often the case in a small city, Bayou La Batre doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The citizens of Bayou La Batre have a very low rate of college education: just 9.77% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Bayou La Batre in 2022 was $18,620, which is low income relative to Alabama and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,480 for a family of four.
Bayou La Batre is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bayou La Batre home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bayou La Batre residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bayou La Batre include French, English, Irish, Czech, and German.
The most common language spoken in Bayou La Batre is English. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Mon-Khmer (Cambodian).
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.
Real Estate
Do you like a coastal setting? If so, this neighborhood may be to your liking. The neighborhood is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Often such coastal places have amenities and recreational activities on the waterfront that are attractive to residents and visitors alike. In addition to being coastal, is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.
People
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
Occupations
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Furthermore, more people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 95.4% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Diversity
Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% 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 Bayou La Batre are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.9% 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, 42.1% 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 34.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (14.2%), and 5.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Mon-Khmer (the dominant language of Cambodia).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Bayou La Batre, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (13.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report German roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.6%) 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 (16.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
