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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 +13.6% YoY. inventory, +2.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 13.6% YoY while the median home got up 2.1% bigger, so value per square foot is up 18.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 70820 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 66.0% of this ZIP's 9,838 occupied households, on a median household income of $47K.
| Measure | ZIP 70820 | East Baton Rouge Parish | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $47K | $63K | -$16K |
| Below Poverty Level | 36.8% | 19.6% | +17.2% |
| Median Age | 23.60 | 34.10 | -10.50 |
| Total Population | 23,377 | 452,938 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.37 | 2.47 | -0.10 |
| Owner-Occupied | 34.0% | 59.3% | -25.3% |
| Worked From Home | 7.0% | 8.6% | -1.6% |
| Mean Commute | 25.60 | 23.60 | +2.00 |
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.