Moreauville is a tiny village located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 935 people and just one neighborhood, Moreauville is the 234th largest community in Louisiana.
Moreauville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Moreauville is a village of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Moreauville who work in healthcare suport services (22.80%), law enforcement and fire fighting (12.16%), and healthcare (9.12%).
Moreauville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Moreauville 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 population of Moreauville has a very low overall level of education: only 8.72% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Moreauville in 2022 was $22,804, 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 $91,216 for a family of four. However, Moreauville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Moreauville is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Moreauville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moreauville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Moreauville include French, German, Italian, Irish, and African.
The most common language spoken in Moreauville is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Pacific Island 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.
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. 12.7% 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 97.7% of all neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 17.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.0% 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 96.7% 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 Moreauville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.5% 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, 30.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 21.1% in manufacturing and laborer 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 90.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
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 Moreauville, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (17.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (5.5%), and residents who report German roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (42.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (12.7%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (87.1%) 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 (10.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.