Lake Arthur is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 2,565 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Arthur is the 151st largest community in Louisiana.
Unlike some towns, Lake Arthur isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lake Arthur are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lake Arthur is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Arthur who work in sales jobs (22.62%), office and administrative support (16.59%), and food service (5.00%).
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Lake Arthur 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. Lake Arthur has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lake Arthur than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lake Arthur may be for you.
In Lake Arthur, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.72 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Lake Arthur does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Lake Arthur is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.24% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lake Arthur in 2022 was $27,594, which is middle income relative to Louisiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,376 for a family of four. However, Lake Arthur contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lake Arthur home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Arthur residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lake Arthur include French, German, English, French Canadian, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Lake Arthur is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 19.8% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 7.8% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.5% 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 97.1% 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 Lake Arthur are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.6% 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, 31.8% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.1%), and 17.1% in executive, management, and professional 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 95.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.
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 Lake Arthur, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (19.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report French Canadian roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.9%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.0%) 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 (11.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.