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Avoyelles Parish School District, LA is a unified school district in Louisiana, serving pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Its boundaries cover 831 square miles of land.
In 2024, the 38,905 people living within its boundaries had a median age of 39 and a median household income of $39,325, against $80,734 for the nation. The median property value was $122,400, and 27.8% of residents lived below the poverty line.
The figures describe everyone who lives in the district, not only its students: they are the Census Bureau's American Community Survey 5-year estimates for 2020-2024, tabulated for school district boundaries.
In 2024, there were 2.29 times more White (Non-Hispanic) residents (24.4k people) in Avoyelles Parish School District, LA than any other race or ethnicity. There were 10.6k Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) and 1.53k Two Races Excluding Other, & Three or More Races (Non-Hispanic) residents, the second and third most common ethnic groups.
In 2024, there were 2.29 times more White (Non-Hispanic) residents (24.4k people) in Avoyelles Parish School District, LA than any other race or ethnicity. There were 10.6k Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) and 1.53k Two Races Excluding Other, & Three or More Races (Non-Hispanic) residents, the second and third most common ethnic groups.
4.01% of the people in Avoyelles Parish School District, LA are hispanic (1.56k people).
The following chart shows the 8 races represented in Avoyelles Parish School District, LA as a share of the total population.
Avoyelles Parish School District, LA has 14.1k employed residents. They are counted where they live, by the job they hold, wherever they work.
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Avoyelles Parish School District, LA, are Management Occupations (1,509 people), Sales & Related Occupations (1,363 people), and Construction & Extraction Occupations (1,192 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Avoyelles Parish School District, LA.
The median property value in Avoyelles Parish School District, LA was $122,400 in 2024, which is 0.368 times smaller than the national average of $332,700.
27.8% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Avoyelles Parish School District, LA (10.1k out of 36.3k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is higher than the national average of 12.5%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females 25 - 34, followed by Females 18 - 24 and then Females 45 - 54.
The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Avoyelles Parish School District, LA is White, followed by Black and Two Or More.
The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who classifies as impoverished. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold than that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty.