ALICE IN ASCENSION PARISH
2018 Point-in-Time Data
Population: 124,672 • Number of Households: 42,649 Median Household Income: $79,495 (state average: $47,905) Unemployment Rate: 6.6% (state average: 6.4%) ALICE Households: 26% (state average: 33%) • Households in Poverty: 12% (state average: 18%) Sources: ALICE Threshold, 2018; American Community Survey, 2018
In the past few decades, there have been major shifts in household composition. The share of American adults who have never been married is at a historic high, as is the number of senior households. There is also a growing number of people who live alone or with roommates, and an increasing share of grown children who live with their parents. Yet all types of households continue to struggle: ALICE and poverty-level households exist across all of these living arrangements.
14,000 12,000
ALICE 11,139
10,000
8,000 6,000
Poverty 5,201
4,000
2,000 0
Total Households
2010
2012
2014
36,927
39,794
41,433
2016
2018
40,663
42,649
Sources: ALICE Threshold, 2010-2018; American Community Survey, 2010-2018
Household Income by Household Type, Ascension Parish, 2018 220052
100%
25,000
90% 19,812
80% 70%
20,000
41%
66%
67%
60%
15,143
15,000
50% 40%
45%
30% 20% 10%
0%
7,694
24%
19%
10%
14%
14%
Families With Children
65 and Over
Single and Cohabiting Poverty
ALICE
Above ALICE Threshold
10,000
Total Households
What types of households are struggling?
220051
Households
ALICE is an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed — households that earn more than the Federal Poverty Level, but less than the basic cost of living for the parish (the ALICE Threshold). While conditions improved for some households from 2010 to 2018, many continued to struggle, especially as wages failed to keep pace with the cost of household essentials (housing, child care, food, transportation, health care, and a basic smartphone plan).
Households by Income, Ascension Parish, 2010 to 2018
Percent of Total Households
How has the number of ALICE households changed over time?
5,000
0
Total Households
Sources: ALICE Threshold, 2018; American Community Survey, 2018
ALICE REPORT, 2020
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