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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 −16.6% YoY. inventory, +19.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 16.6% YoY while the median home got up 10.0% bigger, so value per square foot is down 22.3%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 70805 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 59.5% of this ZIP's 9,021 occupied households, on a median household income of $25K.
| Measure | ZIP 70805 | East Baton Rouge Parish | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $25K | $63K | -$38K |
| Below Poverty Level | 42.5% | 19.6% | +22.9% |
| Median Age | 35.40 | 34.10 | +1.30 |
| Total Population | 23,288 | 452,938 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.57 | 2.47 | +0.10 |
| Owner-Occupied | 40.5% | 59.3% | -18.8% |
| Worked From Home | 3.4% | 8.6% | -5.2% |
| Mean Commute | 22.90 | 23.60 | -0.70 |
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.