Lecompte - Cheneyville is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 4,658 people and just one neighborhood, Lecompte - Cheneyville is the 97th largest community in Louisiana.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lecompte - Cheneyville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.94% of the Lecompte - Cheneyville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lecompte - Cheneyville is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lecompte - Cheneyville who work in sales jobs (13.53%), healthcare (7.74%), and management occupations (5.94%).
One downside of living in Lecompte - Cheneyville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lecompte - Cheneyville, the average commute to work is 31.97 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The percentage of adults in Lecompte - Cheneyville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.70% of the adults in Lecompte - Cheneyville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lecompte - Cheneyville in 2022 was $32,516, which is upper middle income relative to Louisiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $130,064 for a family of four. However, Lecompte - Cheneyville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lecompte - Cheneyville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lecompte - Cheneyville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lecompte - Cheneyville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lecompte - Cheneyville include French, English, Belgian, German, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Lecompte - Cheneyville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
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.
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. 10.6% 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 96.2% of all neighborhoods in America.
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 28 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.1% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 11.4% have French ancestry.
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 Lecompte - Cheneyville 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. In addition, 7.6% 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 56.2% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 37.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.9%), and 7.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.3%).
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 Lecompte - Cheneyville, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (11.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.8%), and residents who report Mexican roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of Belgian ancestry (2.8%), along with some German 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 (41.5% 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 (10.6%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (7.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.