Prairieville (Louisiana)
Ascension Parish
22-62385
Prairieville is a settlement on community- free area in Ascension Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. For statistical purposes, the place has been combined to form a census-designated place (CDP). In 2010 Prairieville had 26,895 inhabitants.
Prairieville is part of the metropolitan area around the city of Baton Rouge.
Geography
Prairieville lies in the central south-eastern Louisiana, in the south suburban area of Baton Rouge and not far from the left bank of the Mississippi. The geographical coordinates are 30 ° 18'11 Prairieville ' north latitude and 90 ° 58'19 "west longitude. The site covers an area of 57.2 km ².
Towns nearby Prairieville are French Settlement (24,3 km to the east), Gonzales (9.3 km to the southeast ), Burnside (21,2 km to the south), Geismar ( 10.6 km SSW ), Saint Gabriel (17,1 km west-southwest ) and Shenandoah (13,7 km north-northwest ).
The nearest large towns are Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge ( 26.2 km north west ) and Louisiana's largest city of New Orleans (101 km east-southeast ).
Traffic
Interstate 10 passes through in Northwest - Southeast direction through Prairieville. Parallel to it a few hundred meters of the designated in this section as Airline Highway U.S. Highway 61 Both roads connect Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Continue to meet in Prairieville Louisiana Highways 42, 44 and 73 together. All other roads are minor roads, some unpaved driveways and internal local roads.
In addition to the U.S. 61 runs for freight railway line of the Kansas City Southern.
With the Louisiana Regional Airport is located 19.3 km south-southeast of a small airfield. The next airports are the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport ( 34.2 km north west ) and the larger Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport ( 90.7 km east-southeast ).
Population
According to the census in 2010 lived in Prairieville 26,895 people in 9149 households. The population density was 470.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 9149 households lived statistically 2.94 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 82.4 percent white, 12.3 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 1.8 percent Asian, 0.1 percent and 1.7 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 5.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
30.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 7.0 percent were 65 years or older. 50.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 83,845. The per capita income was $ 33,066. 5.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.