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Paincourtville, LA

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Overview


Paincourtville is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 857 people and just one neighborhood, Paincourtville is the 252nd largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Paincourtville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Paincourtville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Paincourtville who work in sales jobs (31.25%), office and administrative support (24.01%), and personal care services (8.24%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Paincourtville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Paincourtville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.44% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small town, Paincourtville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Paincourtville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Paincourtville, 22.18% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Paincourtville in 2022 was $24,012, which is middle income relative to Louisiana, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,048 for a family of four. However, Paincourtville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Paincourtville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Paincourtville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Paincourtville residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Paincourtville include French, Irish, French Canadian, German, and Yugoslavian.

The most common language spoken in Paincourtville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 38.9% 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.

Diversity

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, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 8.7% have French ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Paincourtville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 52.7% of America'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, 26.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.2%), and 21.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Vietnamese (2.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Paincourtville, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (8.7%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (5.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.1%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (33.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.1%) 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 (13.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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