Overview
Oberlin is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,331 people and just one neighborhood, Oberlin is the 207th largest community in Louisiana.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Oberlin is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Oberlin is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Oberlin who work in office and administrative support (15.96%), maintenance occupations (13.75%), and management occupations (10.87%).
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!) Oberlin 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. Oberlin has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Oberlin than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Oberlin may be for you.
Oberlin is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
In Oberlin, just 7.40% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Oberlin in 2022 was $23,324, 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 $93,296 for a family of four. However, Oberlin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Oberlin is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Oberlin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oberlin residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Oberlin include English, French, Irish, Italian, and Acadian/Cajun.
The most common language spoken in Oberlin is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 蘑菇视频's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Occupations
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (59.5%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Furthermore, the neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America, according to 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
People
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.2%) living in the neighborhood.
Real Estate
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 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis, with only 20 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.8% of America.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.5% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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. 蘑菇视频's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Oberlin are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.6% 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, 40.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 20.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.2%), and 18.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
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 87.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture 鈥� our learned behavior 鈥� 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 Oberlin, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (15.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report English roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.7%), along with some German ancestry residents (5.3%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (49.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.0%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
