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Collinston is a tiny village located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 256 people and just one neighborhood, Collinston is the 309th largest community in Louisiana.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Collinston is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.14% of the Collinston workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Collinston is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Collinston who work in food service (19.59%), office and administrative support (14.43%), and farm management occupations (13.40%).
Another important characteristic of Collinston is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 15.63% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Setting & Lifestyle
Residents will find that the village 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, Collinston is worth considering.
As is often the case in a small village, Collinston doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The rate of college-level education in Collinston is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.32% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Collinston in 2022 was $33,476, which is upper middle income relative to Louisiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,904 for a family of four. However, Collinston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Collinston also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.48% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Collinston is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Collinston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Collinston residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Collinston include French, Irish, English, Welsh, and German.
The most common language spoken in Collinston is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and African languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Collinston, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
People
Of particular note, 14.4% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Real Estate
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.8% 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 Collinston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 36.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.3%), and 8.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.
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 Collinston, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report French roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.9%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (37.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (84.6%) 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 (14.1%) . 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.
