Chataignier is a tiny village located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 259 people and just one neighborhood, Chataignier is the 312th largest community in Louisiana.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Chataignier is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.06% of the Chataignier workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Chataignier is a village of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chataignier who work in healthcare (15.38%), sales jobs (12.59%), and teaching (12.59%).
Chataignier is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Chataignier, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town.
In addition, many people in Chataignier have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.44% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
For a small village, Chataignier has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Chataignier exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
The citizens of Chataignier are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.51% of adults in Chataignier have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Chataignier in 2022 was $25,714, which is middle income relative to Louisiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,856 for a family of four. However, Chataignier contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Chataignier is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Chataignier home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chataignier residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Chataignier also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.00% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Chataignier include French, French Canadian, Italian, German, and European.
The most common language spoken in Chataignier is English. Other important languages spoken here include French 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.
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, 28.0% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 22.2% 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 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Chataignier are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.8% of U.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, 34.2% 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 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.1%), and 17.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 77.3% of households. Some people also speak French (22.2%).
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 Chataignier, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (28.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (2.7%), and residents who report English roots (2.1%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (1.7%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.
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 (51.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.5%) 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 (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.