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.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Grosse Tete is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.39% of the Grosse Tete workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 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.
One downside of living in Grosse Tete, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 42.98 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small village, Grosse Tete doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
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.
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 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, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
Furthermore, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 32.4%, which is higher than 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Our research reveals that 90.9% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. 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.
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 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.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
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.