Sicily Island is a tiny village located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 344 people and just one neighborhood, Sicily Island is the 300th largest community in Louisiana.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Sicily Island is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sicily Island is a village of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sicily Island who work in food service (20.00%), teaching (14.00%), and healthcare suport services (10.00%).
The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Sicily Island has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sicily Island a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Sicily Island, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.08 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small village, Sicily Island does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Sicily Island citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.16% of adults 25 and older in Sicily Island have a college degree.
The per capita income in Sicily Island in 2022 was $15,627, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,508 for a family of four. However, Sicily Island contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Sicily Island also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 50.68% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Sicily Island is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Sicily Island home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sicily Island residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Sicily Island include Irish, Scots-Irish, European, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Sicily Island is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
Of particular note, 12.2% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.8% 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.
In addition, 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 10 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.2% 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 Sicily Island are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 36.6% 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 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (16.5%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households.
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 Sicily Island, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (6.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.0%), and residents who report German roots (2.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.4%).
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (75.8%) 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 (7.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.