Sorrento (Louisiana)

Ascension Parish

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Sorrento is a small town ( with a status of " Town" ) in Ascension Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. In 2010 Sorrento had 1401 inhabitants.

Sorrento is part of the metropolitan area around the city of Baton Rouge.

Geography

Sorrento is located in the central southeastern Louisiana, far from the left bank of the Mississippi. The geographical coordinates are 30 ° 11'04 Sorrento " north latitude and 90 ° 51'33 " west longitude. The urban area of ​​Sorrento covers an area of ​​8 km ².

Towns nearby Sorrento are French Settlement (19,6 km northeast), Lutcher (24,9 km southeast), Convent (24,4 km south), Donaldsonville (23,2 km southwest), Burnside (9,1 km in the same direction) and Gonzales (9.3 km to the northwest ).

The nearest large towns are Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge ( 46.7 km north west ) and largest city of Louisiana New Orleans ( 87.1 km east-southeast ).

Traffic

Interstate 10 runs through the southwestern part of the urban area of ​​Sorrento. In parallel runs through the northeast of the city of designated in this section as Airline Highway U.S. Highway 61 Both roads connect Baton Rouge to New Orleans. The Louisiana Highway 32 runs in northeast -southwest direction as the main road through Sorrento and crosses while the U.S. 61 and I 10 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 11 km to the west, a small airfield. The next airports are the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport ( 59.5 km north west ) and the larger Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport ( 69.6 km east-southeast ).

Population

According to the census in 2010 lived in Sorrento 1401 people in 537 households. The population density was 175.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 537 households lived statistically 2.61 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 81.1 percent white, 14.6 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian, 0.2 percent and 2.1 percent Polynesians from other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 3.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

26.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.6 percent were 65 years or older. 50.9 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 41,806. The per capita income was $ 21,309. 14.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.