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Belle Rose is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,698 people and just one neighborhood, Belle Rose is the 192nd largest community in Louisiana.
Belle Rose real estate is some of the most expensive in Louisiana, although Belle Rose house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Occupations and Workforce
Belle Rose is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Belle Rose is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Belle Rose who work in office and administrative support (24.41%), management occupations (12.85%), and maintenance occupations (7.88%).
Setting & Lifestyle
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!) Belle Rose 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. Belle Rose has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Belle Rose than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Belle Rose may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Belle Rose doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The education level of Belle Rose citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.14% of adults 25 and older in Belle Rose have a college degree.
The per capita income in Belle Rose in 2022 was $40,202, which is wealthy relative to Louisiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,808 for a family of four. However, Belle Rose contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Belle Rose is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Belle Rose home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Belle Rose residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Belle Rose include French, Irish, German, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Belle Rose is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 Belle Rose, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 95.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.7% of all American neighborhoods.
Real Estate
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 43.7% 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.
People
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 23.0% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.9% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 5.0% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.5% 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 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Belle Rose are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 1.0% 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 78.7% of America'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, 30.0% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.6%), and 15.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.0% of households. Some people also speak French (4.5%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Belle Rose, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (16.9%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (5.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (3.8%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (95.6%) 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.
