Grosse Tete is a tiny village located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 539 people and just one neighborhood, Grosse Tete is the 280th largest community in Louisiana.
Grosse Tete is a blue-collar town, with 42.39% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Grosse Tete is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grosse Tete who work in office and administrative support (15.22%), the sciences (9.24%), and healthcare (8.15%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Grosse Tete has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
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, Grosse Tete has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Grosse Tete a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Grosse Tete, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 42.98 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Grosse Tete 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 Grosse Tete is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.51% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Grosse Tete in 2022 was $31,931, 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 $127,724 for a family of four. However, Grosse Tete contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Grosse Tete is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Grosse Tete home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grosse Tete residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Grosse Tete include French, German, Irish, Italian, and Acadian/Cajun.
The most common language spoken in Grosse Tete is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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.
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 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.1% of America.
Furthermore, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 32.4% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.4% of all American neighborhoods.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.8% 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 18.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 2.6% have French Canadian ancestry.
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 Grosse Tete are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 72.9% of America'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, 39.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.2%), and 17.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 98.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Grosse Tete, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (18.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report German roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (26.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (90.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.