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Convent - Hester is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 2,005 people and just one neighborhood, Convent - Hester is the 170th largest community in Louisiana.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns, Convent - Hester isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Convent - Hester are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Convent - Hester is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Convent - Hester who work in healthcare (24.22%), office and administrative support (9.08%), and sales jobs (8.26%).
Also of interest is that Convent - Hester has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.53% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Setting & Lifestyle
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Convent - Hester has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Convent - Hester a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Convent - Hester is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Convent - Hester, the average commute to work is 30.88 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Demographics
In terms of college education, Convent - Hester is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.62% of adults 25 and older in Convent - Hester have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Convent - Hester in 2022 was $30,936, which is upper middle income relative to Louisiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,744 for a family of four. However, Convent - Hester contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Convent - Hester is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Convent - Hester home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Convent - Hester residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Convent - Hester include French, European, Italian, German, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Convent - Hester is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
People
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.2%) living in the neighborhood.
Real Estate
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.7% 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, 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.
Diversity
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, 12.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry.
The Neighbors
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 Convent - Hester are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.2% 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 60.8% 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, 43.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.1%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.4%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Convent - Hester, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (12.5%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (2.6%), and residents who report German roots (2.3%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (1.4%).
Getting to Work
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
