Grambling is a somewhat small city located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 5,278 people and just one neighborhood, Grambling is the 87th largest community in Louisiana.
Grambling is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 86.41% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Grambling is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Grambling who work in personal care services (21.13%), maintenance occupations (13.03%), and office and administrative support (10.91%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Grambling has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
A relatively large number of people in Grambling telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 25.16% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Grambling spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.23 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Grambling does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Grambling is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.92% of adults in Grambling have a college degree.
The per capita income in Grambling in 2022 was $11,533, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $46,132 for a family of four. However, Grambling contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Grambling also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 58.50% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Grambling is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Grambling home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grambling residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Grambling include German, French, English, Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Grambling is English. Other important languages spoken here include French Creole 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.
NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 32.2% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.
In addition, the neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 97.7% of all American neighborhoods.
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 Grambling are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.0% 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.
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, 41.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (15.5%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.8%).
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 Grambling, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (5.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (2.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.
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 (45.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (55.3%) 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 (18.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.