Doyline is a tiny village located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 656 people and just one neighborhood, Doyline is the 266th largest community in Louisiana.
Doyline is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Doyline is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Doyline who work in sales jobs (15.69%), office and administrative support (14.60%), and healthcare (8.03%).
The village 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, Doyline has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Doyline a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Doyline is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Doyline, the average commute to work is 33.73 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small village, Doyline doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Doyline, just 12.33% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Doyline in 2022 was $20,523, 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 $82,092 for a family of four. However, Doyline contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Doyline also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.91% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Doyline is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Doyline home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Doyline residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Doyline include English, German, Irish, European, and French.
The most common language spoken in Doyline is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.9% 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, one of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
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 Doyline are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.5% 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, 37.2% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.7%), and 8.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Doyline, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.1%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.8%) 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.