Mount Hermon is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 3,933 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Hermon is the 116th largest community in Louisiana.
Unlike some towns, Mount Hermon isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mount Hermon are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Hermon is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Hermon who work in teaching (12.54%), business and financial occupations (10.60%), and office and administrative support (10.03%).
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!) Mount Hermon 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. Mount Hermon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mount Hermon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mount Hermon may be for you.
Mount Hermon 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 adults in Mount Hermon with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.04% of adults in Mount Hermon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Hermon in 2022 was $28,423, which is upper middle income relative to Louisiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $113,692 for a family of four. However, Mount Hermon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mount Hermon is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mount Hermon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Hermon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Hermon include English, German, French, Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Mount Hermon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.0% of the 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, 7.3% of this neighborhood's residents 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 Mount Hermon are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.8% 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, 38.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.0%), and 10.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.8%).
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 Mount Hermon, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report French roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.4%), 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.
Here most residents (88.6%) 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 (10.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.