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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 +7.2% YoY. inventory, +7.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 7.2% YoY while the median home got up 2.7% bigger, so value per square foot is up 16.6%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 70802 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 69.1% of this ZIP's 10,013 occupied households, on a median household income of $34K.
| Measure | ZIP 70802 | East Baton Rouge Parish | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $34K | $63K | -$29K |
| Below Poverty Level | 33.9% | 19.6% | +14.3% |
| Median Age | 27.50 | 34.10 | -6.60 |
| Total Population | 25,118 | 452,938 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.09 | 2.47 | -0.38 |
| Owner-Occupied | 30.9% | 59.3% | -28.4% |
| Worked From Home | 8.5% | 8.6% | -0.1% |
| Mean Commute | 18.40 | 23.60 | -5.20 |
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 up 0.0% to 452,938: residents under 18 are down 0.1% and those 65 and over are up 2.6%.
County median household income is $63K, 19.6% of residents are below the poverty level, 8.6% work from home.