Greensburg is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 630 people and two associated neighborhoods, Greensburg is the 270th largest community in Louisiana.When you are in Greensburg, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.86% of Greensburg’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Greensburg is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Greensburg who work in food service (14.53%), law enforcement and fire fighting (12.50%), and office and administrative support (6.10%). It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Greensburg has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Greensburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Greensburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Greensburg may be for you. In Greensburg, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.23 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Greensburg 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 percentage of people in Greensburg with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.44% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Greensburg in 2022 was $23,997, which is middle income relative to Louisiana, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $95,988 for a family of four. Greensburg also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.45% of its population below the federal poverty line.Greensburg is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Greensburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greensburg residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Greensburg include French, Italian, Irish, English, and German. The most common language spoken in Greensburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
