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Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Maringouin - Rosedale is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 2,286 people and just one neighborhood, Maringouin - Rosedale is the 159th largest community in Louisiana.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Maringouin - Rosedale is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.39% of the Maringouin - Rosedale workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Maringouin - Rosedale is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Maringouin - Rosedale who work in healthcare (11.73%), teaching (9.50%), and sales jobs (9.03%).
Setting & Lifestyle
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, Maringouin - Rosedale has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Maringouin - Rosedale 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, Maringouin - Rosedale doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The rate of college-level education in Maringouin - Rosedale is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.91% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Maringouin - Rosedale in 2022 was $28,796, which is middle income relative to Louisiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,184 for a family of four. However, Maringouin - Rosedale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Maringouin - Rosedale is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Maringouin - Rosedale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Maringouin - Rosedale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Maringouin - Rosedale include Italian, Polish, French, Acadian/Cajun, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Maringouin - Rosedale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Maringouin - Rosedale, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Car Ownership
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 49.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
People
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (55.6%) than found in 96.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Real Estate
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.1% 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.
In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 28 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Significantly, 6.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
The Neighbors
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 Maringouin - Rosedale are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 55.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.0% of U.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, 39.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.8%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.7%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Maringouin - Rosedale, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (9.5%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (4.5%), and residents who report French roots (2.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (36.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (86.5%) 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 (12.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
