All markets/Louisiana/Lake Charles, LA175,000 adults 21+
Lake Charles leans toward whiskey liqueur, Tennessee whiskey and schnapps, American.
Based on Iowa; its group checked in Pennsylvania. Compared with the 387 US metro areas.
How to read this
Each score: how closely Lake Charles’ people match the Iowa counties where that drink’s sales make up a bigger share of spirits sales. Not a sales figure.
Each row ranks Lake Charles among 387 metros for one category. It does not compare categories with each other.
Beside each category is the Census measure the model leans on most for it here.
Each category’s standing comes from a model fitted to Iowa county sales on public Census measures only, checked in Pennsylvania for its group; only the 8 spirits groups and the 24 subcategories that passed are ranked.
An association between places, not a cause or a sales forecast.
The whole book: 32 ranked categories
Show all 32Show the top 8 and bottom 3
Each dot is where Lake Charles ranks among the 387 metros for that category, on the scale printed above its block. Point at a row to see it on the map; click to read it.Tap a row to read it.
Who lives here
The usual metro = the middle of the 387 US metro areas.
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Leans in
Leans away from
- Blended ScotchFewer production and transport jobs than the usual metro: 13.0% against 13.6%.356thof 387 metros
- Flavored GinMore hospitality, food and arts jobs than the usual metro: 9.6% against 8.7%.355thof 387 metros
- Aged and Dark RumHigher poverty rate than the usual metro: 16.8% against 12.7%.355thof 387 metros
Lake Charles on the map
Lake Charles among the 387 US metro areas.
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33rdof 387 metrosLake Charles is among the 33 metros where construction, farm and maintenance jobs are most common: 12.2% here, usual 8.9%.
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What this rests on
County sales by category in Iowa (99 counties, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026), checked in Pennsylvania (67 counties, Jul 2024 to Jun 2025), plus Census ACS 2024 5-year. An association between places, not a cause or a sales forecast.