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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 −5.9% YoY. inventory, +1.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 5.9% YoY while the median home got up 3.8% bigger, so value per square foot is down 3.7%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 70809 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 45.9% of this ZIP's 11,537 occupied households, on a median household income of $80K.
| Measure | ZIP 70809 | East Baton Rouge Parish | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $80K | $63K | +$17K |
| Below Poverty Level | 10.0% | 19.6% | -9.6% |
| Median Age | 36.30 | 34.10 | +2.20 |
| Total Population | 25,732 | 452,938 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.19 | 2.47 | -0.28 |
| Owner-Occupied | 54.1% | 59.3% | -5.2% |
| Worked From Home | 9.5% | 8.6% | +0.9% |
| Mean Commute | 20.70 | 23.60 | -2.90 |
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.