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Maringouin - Rosedale, LA

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Overview


Maringouin - Rosedale is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 2,292 people and just one neighborhood, Maringouin - Rosedale is the 159th largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Maringouin - Rosedale is a blue-collar town, with 38.87% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Maringouin - Rosedale is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Maringouin - Rosedale who work in teaching (10.32%), sales jobs (9.19%), and healthcare (8.39%).

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.

Being a small town, Maringouin - Rosedale does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Maringouin - Rosedale with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.93% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Maringouin - Rosedale in 2022 was $28,803, which is upper middle income relative to Louisiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,212 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 Polish, French, Acadian/Cajun, Italian, and French Canadian.

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

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 45.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.8% 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, 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

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 Maringouin - Rosedale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.7% of U.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, 38.9% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 97.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Maringouin - Rosedale, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Polish (4.2%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (3.9%), and residents who report Mexican roots (2.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.8%).

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 (35.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (88.7%) 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 (10.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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