Cottonport - Evergreen is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 4,027 people and just one neighborhood, Cottonport - Evergreen is the 109th largest community in Louisiana.
When you are in Cottonport - Evergreen, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.35% of Cottonport - Evergreen’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cottonport - Evergreen is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cottonport - Evergreen who work in office and administrative support (17.81%), sales jobs (13.77%), and healthcare (7.29%).
In Cottonport - Evergreen, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.28 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Cottonport - Evergreen does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Cottonport - Evergreen has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.97% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Cottonport - Evergreen in 2022 was $15,516, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,064 for a family of four. However, Cottonport - Evergreen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cottonport - Evergreen also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.22% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Cottonport - Evergreen is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cottonport - Evergreen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cottonport - Evergreen residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cottonport - Evergreen include French, Irish, German, European, and English.
The most common language spoken in Cottonport - Evergreen is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Pacific Island 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.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.6% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 96.0% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 18.4% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.4% of all neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.1% 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 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Cottonport - Evergreen are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.1% 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, 40.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 22.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.2%), and 15.8% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.3% of households. Some people also speak French (3.1%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Cottonport - Evergreen, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (14.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report German roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.4%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (18.4%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (14.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.