Slaughter is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,006 people and just one neighborhood, Slaughter is the 229th largest community in Louisiana.
Slaughter real estate is some of the most expensive in Louisiana, although Slaughter house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Slaughter is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Slaughter is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Slaughter who work in office and administrative support (11.48%), food service (9.72%), and healthcare (9.19%).
Also of interest is that Slaughter has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Slaughter 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. Slaughter has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Slaughter than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Slaughter may be for you.
One downside of living in Slaughter is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Slaughter, the average commute to work is 38.19 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Slaughter doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Slaughter are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.20% of adults in Slaughter having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Slaughter in 2022 was $34,078, 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 $136,312 for a family of four. However, Slaughter contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Slaughter is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Slaughter home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Slaughter residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Slaughter include French, German, Irish, English, and European.
The most common language spoken in Slaughter is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Slaughter, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.2% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.5% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 1.8% have Native American ancestry.
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 Slaughter are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.4% 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, 35.6% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.6%).
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 Slaughter, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (8.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report English roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (88.4%) 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.