Cotton Valley - Sarepta is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 2,621 people and just one neighborhood, Cotton Valley - Sarepta is the 147th largest community in Louisiana.
When you are in Cotton Valley - Sarepta, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.84% of Cotton Valley - Sarepta’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cotton Valley - Sarepta is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cotton Valley - Sarepta who work in management occupations (15.51%), sales jobs (10.34%), and office and administrative support (6.35%).
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!) Cotton Valley - Sarepta 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. Cotton Valley - Sarepta has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cotton Valley - Sarepta than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cotton Valley - Sarepta may be for you.
One downside of living in Cotton Valley - Sarepta is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cotton Valley - Sarepta, the average commute to work is 31.13 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The percentage of people in Cotton Valley - Sarepta with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.01% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cotton Valley - Sarepta in 2022 was $22,628, which is lower middle income relative to Louisiana, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,512 for a family of four. However, Cotton Valley - Sarepta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cotton Valley - Sarepta is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cotton Valley - Sarepta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cotton Valley - Sarepta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cotton Valley - Sarepta include Irish, English, German, Dutch, and African.
The most common language spoken in Cotton Valley - Sarepta 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.
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 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.5% of 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 Cotton Valley - Sarepta are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.9% of U.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, 39.8% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.9%), and 12.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.
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 Cotton Valley - Sarepta, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report German roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (1.9%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 (27.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.6%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.