Amelia is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 2,132 people and just one neighborhood, Amelia is the 167th largest community in Louisiana.
Amelia is a blue-collar town, with 51.08% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Amelia is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Amelia who work in management occupations (12.67%), office and administrative support (7.95%), and business and financial occupations (6.74%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Amelia is worth considering.
Being a small town, Amelia does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Amelia, just 7.22% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Amelia in 2022 was $17,987, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $71,948 for a family of four. However, Amelia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Amelia is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Amelia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Amelia, accounting for 55.15% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Amelia residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Amelia include Irish, French, French Canadian, Acadian/Cajun, and Swedish.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Amelia's cultural character, accounting for 36.40% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Amelia is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Vietnamese.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 52.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.3% of American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 44.2% 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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 59.6% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
Significantly, 10.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in 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 Amelia are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.1% 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, 52.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 20.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.9%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 46.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Vietnamese and Italian.
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 Amelia, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (29.2%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report Spanish roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.8%), along with some South American ancestry residents (2.9%), among others. In addition, 30.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (59.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.6%) 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 (14.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.