Slaughter is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,006 people and just one neighborhood, Slaughter is the 229th largest community in Louisiana.
Slaughter real estate is some of the most expensive in Louisiana, although Slaughter house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some towns, Slaughter isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Slaughter are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Slaughter is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Slaughter who work in office and administrative support (11.48%), food service (9.72%), and healthcare (9.19%).
Also of interest is that Slaughter has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Residents will find that the town 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, Slaughter is worth considering.
In Slaughter, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 38.19 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Slaughter does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Slaughter overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Slaughter, 21.20% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Slaughter in 2022 was $34,078, which is upper middle income relative to Louisiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $136,312 for a family of four. However, Slaughter contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Slaughter is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Slaughter home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Slaughter residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Slaughter include French, German, Irish, English, and European.
The most common language spoken in Slaughter is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
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.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.2% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.5% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 1.8% have Native American 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 Slaughter are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.4% of U.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, 35.6% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.6%).
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 Slaughter, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (8.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report English roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (88.4%) 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.