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Pleasant Hill - Converse, LA

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Overview


Pleasant Hill - Converse is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 2,741 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasant Hill - Converse is the 143rd largest community in Louisiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Pleasant Hill - Converse is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.24% of the Pleasant Hill - Converse workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Pleasant Hill - Converse is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Hill - Converse who work in office and administrative support (12.21%), healthcare (9.25%), and maintenance occupations (7.31%).

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!) Pleasant Hill - Converse 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. Pleasant Hill - Converse has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pleasant Hill - Converse than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pleasant Hill - Converse may be for you.

One downside of living in Pleasant Hill - Converse is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pleasant Hill - Converse, the average commute to work is 31.56 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

In Pleasant Hill - Converse, just 12.23% 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 Pleasant Hill - Converse in 2022 was $26,178, which is middle income relative to Louisiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,712 for a family of four. However, Pleasant Hill - Converse contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Pleasant Hill - Converse is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pleasant Hill - Converse home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasant Hill - Converse residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasant Hill - Converse include English, French, German, Irish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Pleasant Hill - Converse is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.3% 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.

In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 7.4% have French ancestry.

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 Pleasant Hill - Converse are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 35.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.6%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Pleasant Hill - Converse, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (12.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report French roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (6.1%), along with some German ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 (34.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (16.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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