For population 25 years and over in Fort Polk North:
High school or higher: 98.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 30.4%
Graduate or professional degree: 9.2%
Unemployed: 12.5%
Mean travel time to work (commute): 16.5 minutes
For population 15 years and over in Fort Polk North CDP:
Never married: 2.6%
Now married: 96.4%
Separated: 0.6%
Widowed: 0.0%
Divorced: 0.3%
194 residents are foreign born (3.0% Asia, 1.7% Latin America, 0.9% Europe).
This place:
5.9%
Louisiana:
2.6%
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2009: $-1 (100.0%) Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with no mortgage in 2009: $-1 (100.0%)
Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Lake Charles, LA (61.5 miles , pop. 71,757).
Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: Shreveport, LA (100.8 miles , pop. 200,145).
Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Houston, TX (161.4 miles , pop. 1,953,631).
Fort Polk North-area historical tornado activity is slightly above Louisiana state average. It is 123% greater than the overall U.S. average.
On 12/3/1953, a category F4 (max. wind speeds 207-260 mph) tornado 7.4 miles away from the Fort Polk North place center killed 9 peopleand injured 50 peopleand causedbetween $500,000 and $5,000,000 in damages.
On 5/1/1967, a category F3 (max. wind speeds 158-206 mph) tornado 31.9 miles away from the place center injured 2 peopleand causedbetween $5000 and $50,000 in damages.
Natural disasters:
The number of natural disasters in Rapides Parish (19) is greater than the US average (12). Major Disasters (Presidential) Declared: 13 Emergencies Declared: 5
Causes of natural disasters: Hurricanes: 8, Floods: 7, Storms: 5, Tornadoes: 2, Drought: 1, Heavy Rain: 1, Tornado: 1, Fire: 1, Freeze: 1, Tropical Storm: 1, Other: 1 (Note: Some incidents may be assigned to more than one category).
Hospitals/medical centers near Fort Polk North:
BYRD REGIONAL HOSPITAL (Acute Care Hospitals, Proprietary, provides emergency services, about 2 miles away; LEESVILLE, LA)
DOCTORS HOSPITAL AT DEER CREEK LLC (Acute Care Hospitals, Proprietary, provides emergency services, about 2 miles away; LEESVILLE, LA)
BEAUREGARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (Acute Care Hospitals, Government - Hospital District or Authority, provides emergency services, about 33 miles away; DERIDDER, LA)
Colleges/universities with over 2000 students nearest to Fort Polk North:
Northwestern State University of Louisiana (about 46 miles; Natchitoches, LA; Full-time enrollment: 5,626)
McNeese State University (about 64 miles; Lake Charles, LA; FT enrollment: 6,406)
Lamar University (about 92 miles; Beaumont, TX; FT enrollment: 7,661)
University of Louisiana at Lafayette (about 92 miles; Lafayette, LA; FT enrollment: 13,419)
Angelina College (about 94 miles; Lufkin, TX; FT enrollment: 2,054)
Stephen F Austin State University (about 95 miles; Nacogdoches, TX; FT enrollment: 10,307)
Louisiana State University-Shreveport (about 98 miles; Shreveport, LA; FT enrollment: 2,639)
Rapides Parish has a predicted average indoor radon screening level less than 2 pCi/L (pico curies per liter) - Low Potential
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2009: 5.3%
(3.0% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 4.4% for Black residents, 26.9% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 0.0% for American Indian residents, 0.0% for other race residents, 0.0% for two or more races residents)
Average household size:
This place:
2.6 people
Louisiana:
2.5 people
Percentage of family households:
This place:
90.7%
Whole state:
69.7%
Percentage of households with unmarried partners:
This place:
0.2%
Whole state:
5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
Religion statistics for Fort Polk North (based on Rapides Parish data)
Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 62.96%
Here
63.0%
USA
50.2%
Adherents
Breakdown of population affiliated with a religious congregations
Name
Southern Baptist Convention
Catholic Church
United Methodist Church
Episcopal Church
Assemblies of God
Adherents
55.2%
26.5%
6.8%
1.5%
1.0%
Congregations
45.3%
10.5%
12.1%
3.2%
3.7%
Name
Churches of Christ
Charismatic Churches Independent
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
LDS (Mormon) Church
Other
Adherents
1.0%
1.0%
0.9%
0.9%
5.1%
Congregations
3.2%
0.5%
1.1%
1.1%
19.5%
Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center. Tables represent county-level data.
Food Environment Statistics:
Number of grocery stores: 19
Rapides Parish:
1.43 / 10,000 pop.
State:
2.56 / 10,000 pop.
Number of supercenters and club stores: 3
Here:
0.23 / 10,000 pop.
Louisiana:
0.18 / 10,000 pop.
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 14
This county:
1.05 / 10,000 pop.
Louisiana:
1.29 / 10,000 pop.
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 85
Rapides Parish:
6.40 / 10,000 pop.
Louisiana:
4.49 / 10,000 pop.
Number of full-service restaurants: 56
This county:
4.21 / 10,000 pop.
State:
5.92 / 10,000 pop.
Adult diabetes rate:
Rapides Parish:
11.7%
Louisiana:
10.9%
Adult obesity rate:
Rapides Parish:
30.3%
State:
29.2%
Low-income preschool obesity rate:
Here:
10.2%
State:
13.7%
6.49% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($33,983 average adjusted gross income)
Here:
6.49%
Louisiana average:
8.89%
0.03% of residents moved from foreign countries ($71 average AGI)
Rapides Parish:
0.03%
Louisiana average:
0.11%
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
#54 on the list of "Top 100 cities with highest percentage of renters"
#8 (71459) on the list of "Top 101 zip codes with the largest percentage of returns reporting salary or wage in 2004 (pop 5,000+)"
#5 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the highest percentage of residents that keep firearms around their homes"
#11 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the highest average weight of females"
#15 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the highest number of infant deaths per 1000 residents 2000-2003 (pop. 50,000+)"
#66 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the largest increase in the number of infant deaths per 1000 residents 1990-1999 to 2000-2003 (pop. 50,000+)"
