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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 −9.9% YoY. inventory, −11.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 9.9% YoY while the median home got down 2.8% bigger, so value per square foot is up 9.0%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 70808 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 44.5% of this ZIP's 15,931 occupied households, on a median household income of $69K.
| Measure | ZIP 70808 | East Baton Rouge Parish | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $69K | $63K | +$6K |
| Below Poverty Level | 19.9% | 19.6% | +0.3% |
| Median Age | 31.50 | 34.10 | -2.60 |
| Total Population | 35,843 | 452,938 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.18 | 2.47 | -0.29 |
| Owner-Occupied | 55.5% | 59.3% | -3.8% |
| Worked From Home | 11.7% | 8.6% | +3.1% |
| Mean Commute | 18.10 | 23.60 | -5.50 |
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.