Singer is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 303 people and just one neighborhood, Singer is the 305th largest community in Louisiana. Much of the housing stock in Singer was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Singer economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Singer, where the median household income is .
Singer real estate is some of the most expensive in Louisiana, although Singer house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Singer is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.84% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Singer is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Singer who work in maintenance occupations (42.11%), sales jobs (35.09%), and healthcare suport services (9.65%).
Another notable thing is that Singer is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
The overall crime rate in Singer is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Singer is worth considering.
One downside of living in Singer is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Singer, the average commute to work is 35.00 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Singer is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Singer has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Singer in 2022 was $15,706, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,824 for a family of four. However, Singer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Singer also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 50.85% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Singer is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Singer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Singer residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Singer include German, Irish, Scottish, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Singer 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 98.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 48.5% 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 22 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.3% of America.
Of particular note, 13.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 46.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.0% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 0.9% have Romanian 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 Singer are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.6% 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, 46.8% 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 33.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (11.1%), and 7.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% 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 Singer, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report French roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.
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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (82.3%) 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 (16.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.