Hodge is a tiny village located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 375 people and just one neighborhood, Hodge is the 299th largest community in Louisiana.
Unlike some villages, Hodge isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Hodge are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hodge is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hodge who work in maintenance occupations (23.02%), sales jobs (12.70%), and office and administrative support (11.11%).
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Hodge 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. Hodge has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hodge than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hodge may be for you.
One of the benefits of Hodge is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.53 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Hodge is a small village, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Hodge, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.14% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Hodge is a small village, 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 Hodge have a very low rate of college education: just 9.07% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Hodge in 2022 was $17,982, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $71,928 for a family of four. However, Hodge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hodge is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Hodge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hodge residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hodge include Irish, British, Scots-Irish, German, and English.
The most common language spoken in Hodge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 32 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Hodge is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in LA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.6% of the neighborhoods in Louisiana. If you are considering retiring to Louisiana, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 Hodge are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 45.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.3% 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, 32.4% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.3%), and 16.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households.
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 Hodge, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.6%), and residents who report French roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (46.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.0%) 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 (5.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.