Duson
Duson is rice fields, a rail line, and an I-10 exit that locals use mostly to get somewhere else. Population sits under two thousand, which sets the dating math honestly: you already know everyone, or you are dating someone who does. The upside is real, quiet, cheap, and twenty minutes from anything Lafayette offers. The downside is the same twenty minutes, every time, both ways. Date nights here usually mean a drive into Scott or Lafayette proper, then back to a porch. Nobody is meeting strangers at the Dollar General. The romance is geographic: you commute to the date, then come home to the calm.
Duson by the numbers
Duson runs male-heavy, about 55% men to 45% women.
Median individual income in Duson is about $31,200.
Louisiana registers voters by party, and Lafayette Parish is about 42% Republican to 28% Democratic, with a 30% no-party/other bloc - the legacy-Democratic registration has faded below the GOP.
The median renter in Duson pays about $850 a month.
About 2,300 Duson residents ages 22 to 50 are single.
Local date spots
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The Coffee Depot
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Rêve Coffee Lab River Ranch
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Village Station at Roundabout
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Rhonda's Hang Out
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Naq’s N’ Duson
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Tipsy Cajun
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She Brews It
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Daxys
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Hunt's Perfect Roast
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Ripley’s Crawfish
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Nube 9 Coffee
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