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Perry, LA

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Overview


Perry is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,171 people and just one neighborhood, Perry is the 222nd largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Perry, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.96% of Perry’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Perry is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Perry who work in teaching (16.34%), sales jobs (14.21%), and management occupations (8.35%).

Also of interest is that Perry has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Perry is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Perry a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Perry has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Perry’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

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

Demographics

The education level of Perry citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.22% of adults in Perry have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Perry in 2022 was $25,593, 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 $102,372 for a family of four. However, Perry contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Perry is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Perry home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Perry residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Perry include French Canadian, French, English, Dutch, and Acadian/Cajun.

The most common language spoken in Perry is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is among the best neighborhoods for families in Louisiana. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 97.0% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Louisiana. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the neighborhood.

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, 18.9% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 14.3% have French ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.0% 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 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Perry are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.9% 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 53.6% 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, 38.1% 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 31.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.2%), and 14.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

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 85.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Perry, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French Canadian (18.9%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report English roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.4%) 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.


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