La Salle - Gilcrest is a somewhat small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 5,014 people and just one neighborhood, La Salle - Gilcrest is the 89th largest community in Colorado.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, La Salle - Gilcrest is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.86% of the La Salle - Gilcrest workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, La Salle - Gilcrest is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Salle - Gilcrest who work in management occupations (10.93%), food service (9.21%), and office and administrative support (8.86%).
Also of interest is that La Salle - Gilcrest has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
La Salle - Gilcrest 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 citizens of La Salle - Gilcrest are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.54% of adults in La Salle - Gilcrest have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in La Salle - Gilcrest in 2022 was $36,436, which is middle income relative to Colorado, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $145,744 for a family of four. However, La Salle - Gilcrest contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
La Salle - Gilcrest is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call La Salle - Gilcrest home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Salle - Gilcrest residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. La Salle - Gilcrest also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 41.58% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in La Salle - Gilcrest include German, English, Irish, Swedish, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in La Salle - Gilcrest is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.1% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 La Salle - Gilcrest are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.6% 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 54.4% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 37.2% 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.7%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (30.2%).
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 La Salle - Gilcrest, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (35.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (22.4%), and residents who report English roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.4%), along with some Swedish 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 (33.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.3%) 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 (15.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.