Oretta
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Location in Louisiana
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Louisiana | ||
| Parish : | Beauregard Parish | ||
| Coordinates : | 30 ° 32 ′ N , 93 ° 26 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 418 (as of 2010) | ||
| Height : | 32 m | ||
| Area code : | +1 337 | ||
| FIPS : | 22-58150 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 543559 | ||
Oretta is a settlement on community-free area in Beauregard Parish in US -amerikanischen State Louisiana . For statistical purposes, the place has been combined to form a census-designated place (CDP). In 2010 Oretta had 418 inhabitants.
geography
Oretta located in western Louisiana, about 30 km east of the border with Texas forming the Sabine River . The geographical coordinates of Oretta are 30 ° 31'34 "north latitude and 93 ° 26'15" west longitude.
Neighboring towns of Oretta are Singer (17 km north), Ragley (31 km east) and DeQuincy (11 km south).
The nearest major cities are Shreveport (160 miles north), Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge (150 miles east), Louisiana's largest city New Orleans (366 miles in the same direction), Lafayette (170 km east-southeast), Beaumont , Texas (94.5 km southwest) and Texas' largest city Houston (228 km in the same direction).
traffic
The Louisiana Highway 27 runs in a north-south direction as the main road through Oretta. All other roads are subordinate country roads, some unpaved roads and inner-city connecting roads.
Parallel to LA 27 runs a railway line of the Timber Rock Railroad belonging to the Watco Companies , a class III railway company.
The DeQuincy Industrial Airpark is located 12.2 km south of a small airfield. The nearest major airports are Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (351 km east) and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston (216 km west-southwest).
population
According to the 2010 census , there were 418 people in Oretta in 146 households in which statistically 2.86 people lived.
The racial the population was composed of 93.8 percent white, 1.2 percent African American, 1.7 percent Native American and 1.0 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.4 percent of the population.
28.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.4 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 35,833 USD . The per capita income was $ 9,373. 24.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder , accessed August 21, 2013
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps , accessed on August 21, 2013