Castor is a tiny village located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 220 people and just one neighborhood, Castor is the 319th largest community in Louisiana.
Castor is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Castor is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Castor who work in office and administrative support (31.63%), personal care services (9.18%), and healthcare suport services (6.12%).
Castor’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Castor 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. Castor has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Castor than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Castor may be for you.
In Castor, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.36 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Castor is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Castor citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.28% of adults in Castor have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Castor in 2022 was $16,727, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $66,908 for a family of four. Castor also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.53% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Castor is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Castor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Castor residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Castor include Irish, Italian, German, Eastern European, and English.
The most common language spoken in Castor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 45.8% 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.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.6% of America.
Our research reveals that 90.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 24.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry.
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 Castor are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.9% 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, 37.3% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.2%), and 17.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households.
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 Castor, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (24.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.4%), and residents who report German roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (90.0%) 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 (5.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.