Henderson is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,595 people and just one neighborhood, Henderson is the 198th largest community in Louisiana.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Henderson is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.69% of the Henderson workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Henderson is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Henderson who work in food service (15.10%), sales jobs (11.85%), and office and administrative support (11.04%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Henderson has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Henderson a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Henderson does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Henderson ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 2.91% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Henderson in 2022 was $23,145, which is lower middle income relative to Louisiana, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $92,580 for a family of four. However, Henderson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Henderson is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Henderson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Henderson residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Henderson also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.28% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Henderson include French Canadian, French, German, Irish, and English.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Henderson's cultural character, accounting for 20.06% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Henderson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
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 Henderson, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.3% 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.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 4.2% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.8% of America's neighborhoods.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.3% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.8% of all neighborhoods in America.
Our research reveals that 89.2% 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 French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 14.5% have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Henderson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.7% 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, 31.3% 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 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.2%), and 21.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 66.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, French and Vietnamese.
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 Henderson, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (14.5%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (7.2%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.9%), among others. In addition, 16.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (11.3%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (89.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.