Arcadia is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 2,645 people and just one neighborhood, Arcadia is the 146th largest community in Louisiana.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Arcadia is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.07% of the Arcadia workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Arcadia is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Arcadia who work in maintenance occupations (11.03%), sales jobs (8.30%), and healthcare suport services (7.56%).
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, Arcadia has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Arcadia 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, Arcadia doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Arcadia with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.39% of adults in Arcadia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Arcadia in 2022 was $21,789, 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 $87,156 for a family of four. Arcadia also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.76% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Arcadia is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Arcadia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Arcadia residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Arcadia include Irish, French, German, Scots-Irish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Arcadia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.1%) living in the neighborhood.
In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Arcadia is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in LA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 89.6% of the neighborhoods in Louisiana. If you are considering retiring to Louisiana, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 Arcadia are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 48.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.5% 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, 41.4% 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 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.5%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.
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 Arcadia, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (4.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (3.3%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (2.5%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (2.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
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 (52.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (86.0%) 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 (13.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.