Collinston is a tiny village located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 262 people and just one neighborhood, Collinston is the 309th largest community in Louisiana.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Collinston is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Collinston is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Collinston who work in office and administrative support (29.11%), food service (20.25%), and personal care services (12.66%).
A relatively large number of people in Collinston telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.82% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Residents will find that the village is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Collinston is worth considering.
Being a small village, Collinston does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Collinston ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.10% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Collinston in 2022 was $23,337, which is lower middle income relative to Louisiana, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,348 for a family of four. However, Collinston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Collinston also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.46% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Collinston is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Collinston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Collinston residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Collinston include English, French, Irish, German, and Acadian/Cajun.
The most common language spoken in Collinston is English. Other important languages spoken here include French 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.
Of particular note, 14.4% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 41 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.8% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Cuban ancestry.
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 Collinston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.1% 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 61.3% 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, 34.8% 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 33.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.0%), and 8.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% 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 Collinston, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report French roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.7%), along with some Cuban ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.7%) 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 (11.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.