Lake Charles (French: Lac Charles) is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Founded in 1861 in Calcasieu Parish, it is a major industrial, cultural, and educational center in the southwest region of the state.
As of the 2010 census, the population was 71,993. Lake Charles is the principal city of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area, having a population of 202,040. It is the larger principal city of the Lake Charles-Jennings Combined Statistical Area, with a population of 225,235. The 2010 population of the five-parish area of Southwest Louisiana was 292,619.
It is considered a regionally significant center of petrochemical refining, gaming, tourism, and education, being home to McNeese State University and Sowela Technical Community College. Because of the lakes and waterways throughout the city, metropolitan Lake Charles is often referred to as the Lake Area.
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The neighborhood have a lot of older people its quite more stay to there self not many young people on my street but i love the community and we're i live
My neighborhood is friendly. Just alot of young people.
very quiet with convience stores and gas stations to supply the public needs and plenty of parks and recreational centers.
Yes very quiet with convience stores and gas stations to supply the public needs and plenty of parks and recreational centers.
All my neighbors are of age,very freindly,the majority of them are over 50..very quiet..We have neighborhood watch,we call know one another