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!) Bourg 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. Bourg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bourg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bourg may be for you.
Being a small town, Bourg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Bourg are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.18% of adults in Bourg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Bourg in 2022 was $40,015, which is wealthy relative to Louisiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,060 for a family of four. However, Bourg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bourg is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bourg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bourg residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Bourg include French, English, German, Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Bourg is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.
