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Cotton Valley - Sarepta is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 2,621 people and just one neighborhood, Cotton Valley - Sarepta is the 147th largest community in Louisiana.
Occupations and Workforce
Cotton Valley - Sarepta is a blue-collar town, with 39.84% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cotton Valley - Sarepta is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cotton Valley - Sarepta who work in management occupations (15.51%), sales jobs (10.34%), and office and administrative support (6.35%).
Setting & Lifestyle
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!) Cotton Valley - Sarepta 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. Cotton Valley - Sarepta has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cotton Valley - Sarepta than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cotton Valley - Sarepta may be for you.
In Cotton Valley - Sarepta, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.13 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Demographics
In Cotton Valley - Sarepta, just 11.01% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Cotton Valley - Sarepta in 2022 was $22,628, which is lower middle income relative to Louisiana, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,512 for a family of four. However, Cotton Valley - Sarepta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cotton Valley - Sarepta is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cotton Valley - Sarepta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cotton Valley - Sarepta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cotton Valley - Sarepta include Irish, English, German, Dutch, and African.
The most common language spoken in Cotton Valley - Sarepta is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.
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
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 36 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Cotton Valley - Sarepta are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.9% 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, 39.8% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.9%), and 12.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.
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 Cotton Valley - Sarepta, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report German roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (1.9%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 (27.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.6%) 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 (9.6%) . 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.
