ALICE IN EVANGELINE PARISH
2018 Point-in-Time Data
Population: 33,636 • Number of Households: 12,051 Median Household Income: $32,180 (state average: $47,905) Unemployment Rate: 13.5% (state average: 6.4%) ALICE Households: 40% (state average: 33%) • Households in Poverty: 25% (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.
6,000 5,000
ALICE 4,817
4,000 Poverty 3,037
3,000 2,000
1,000 0
Total Households
2010
2012
2014
11,934
12,172
12,053
2016
2018
11,871
12,051
Sources: ALICE Threshold, 2010-2018; American Community Survey, 2010-2018
Household Income by Household Type, Evangeline Parish, 2018 220392
100%
6,000
90% 80%
5,209
27%
37%
70%
4,000
3,632
60%
3,210
50% 40%
5,000
39%
29%
39%
54%
2,000
30% 20% 10%
0%
3,000
1,000
32%
24%
Total Households
What types of households are struggling?
220391
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, Evangeline Parish, 2010 to 2018
Percent of Total Households
How has the number of ALICE households changed over time?
19%
Single and Cohabiting Poverty
Families With Children ALICE
Above ALICE Threshold
65 and Over
0
Total Households
Sources: ALICE Threshold, 2018; American Community Survey, 2018
ALICE REPORT, 2020
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