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Washington, LA

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Overview


Washington is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 726 people and just one neighborhood, Washington is the 263rd largest community in Louisiana.

Washington real estate is some of the most expensive in Louisiana, although Washington house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Washington, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.95% of Washington’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Washington is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Washington who work in office and administrative support (18.48%), personal care services (10.26%), and healthcare suport services (9.97%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Washington’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

One downside of living in Washington is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Washington, the average commute to work is 38.00 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Washington doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Washington with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.43% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Washington in 2022 was $17,601, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,404 for a family of four.

Washington is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Washington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Washington residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Washington include French Canadian, German, Acadian/Cajun, English, and French.

The most common language spoken in Washington is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

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 25 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.8% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.3% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 14.8% have French ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% 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 Washington are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.7% 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 56.8% 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, 38.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 21.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.2%), and 17.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.3% of households. Some people also speak French (4.9%).

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 Washington, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (14.8%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report German roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.7%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.1%) 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 (6.9%) and 5.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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