Spearsville is a tiny village located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 120 people and just one neighborhood, Spearsville is the 330th largest community in Louisiana.
Spearsville is a blue-collar town, with 59.14% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Spearsville is a village of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Spearsville who work in sales jobs (10.75%), architecture and engineering (8.60%), and farm management occupations (6.45%).
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, Spearsville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Spearsville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Spearsville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 40.99 minutes every day commuting to work.
Spearsville 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 rate of college-level education in Spearsville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.94% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Spearsville in 2022 was $33,562, which is upper middle income relative to Louisiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $134,248 for a family of four. However, Spearsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Spearsville is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Spearsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spearsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Spearsville include English, Irish, German, French, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Spearsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 96.6% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.3% 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, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 18 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Spearsville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.3% 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, 31.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.1%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.2%).
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 Spearsville, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (8.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.1%), along with some African ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.6%) 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 (12.0%) and 5.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.