Overview
Wisner is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 748 people and just one neighborhood, Wisner is the 259th largest community in Louisiana.
Occupations and Workforce
Wisner is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Wisner is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wisner who work in management occupations (16.44%), law enforcement and fire fighting (9.93%), and healthcare suport services (9.59%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Demographics
The percentage of adults in Wisner with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.84% of adults in Wisner have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wisner in 2022 was $18,372, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,488 for a family of four. However, Wisner contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wisner also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.76% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Wisner is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wisner home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wisner residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wisner include Irish, English, German, African, and Romanian.
The most common language spoken in Wisner is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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People
Of note, 66.4% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
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Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.1% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than 蘑菇视频 found in 95.0% of all American neighborhoods.
The Neighbors
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 Wisner are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. 蘑菇视频's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 66.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.1% 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, 30.0% 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 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 20.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households.
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 Wisner, LA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (8.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report German roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.8%), along with some African ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.
Getting to Work
How you get to work 鈥� car, bus, train or other means 鈥� 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 (54.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.1%) 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.
