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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is +5.8% YoY. inventory, −31.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 5.8% YoY while the median home got up 2.7% bigger, so value per square foot is up 18.2%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 70601 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 41.1% of this ZIP's 12,517 occupied households, on a median household income of $50K.
| Measure | ZIP 70601 | Calcasieu Parish | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $50K | $68K | -$18K |
| Below Poverty Level | 28.8% | 17.4% | +11.4% |
| Median Age | 38.40 | 37.40 | +1.00 |
| Total Population | 30,872 | 207,088 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.43 | 2.62 | -0.19 |
| Owner-Occupied | 58.9% | 72.8% | -13.9% |
| Worked From Home | 4.0% | 5.6% | -1.6% |
| Mean Commute | 16.30 | 21.10 | -4.80 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is down 0.8% to 207,088: residents under 18 are down 1.4% and those 65 and over are up 2.3%.
County median household income is $68K, 17.4% of residents are below the poverty level, 5.6% work from home.