Oil City is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 868 people and just one neighborhood, Oil City is the 244th largest community in Louisiana.
When you are in Oil City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.86% of Oil City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Oil City is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oil City who work in sales jobs (11.05%), healthcare suport services (11.05%), and teaching (9.39%).
Being a small town, Oil City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Oil City ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 1.64% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Oil City in 2022 was $14,405, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $57,620 for a family of four. Oil City also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 58.38% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Oil City is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Oil City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oil City residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Oil City include English, Irish, African, French, and German.
The most common language spoken in Oil City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 29 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.9% of 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 Oil City are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 46.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 35.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 35.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.1%), and 13.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.
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 Oil City, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report German roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (7.3%) and 6.8% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.