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.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Amelia is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 57.32% of the Amelia workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Amelia is a town of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Amelia who work in management occupations (12.07%), office and administrative support (7.80%), and personal care services (5.24%).
The town 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, Amelia has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Amelia a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Amelia doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Amelia ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.46% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Amelia in 2022 was $20,307, which is lower middle income relative to Louisiana, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $81,228 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 57.20% 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 Canadian, French, Haitian, and Acadian/Cajun.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Amelia's cultural character, accounting for 39.38% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Amelia is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Vietnamese.
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.
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 54.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.5% of American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 44.1% 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.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 5.6% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.9% of America's neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.2% 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.
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 Amelia are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.9% 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, 54.3% 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 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (10.2%), and 9.1% 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 47.3% 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 (31.4%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report Haitian roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (4.5%), along with some South American ancestry residents (3.4%), among others. In addition, 30.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (53.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.5%) 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 (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.