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A tight-supply market with no rental pool to price against. Demand is visible here; the rent math is not.
What would change this read: the median listing price is +11.2% YoY. inventory, −20.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 11.2% YoY while the median home got down 6.6% bigger, so value per square foot is up 7.2%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 71201 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 44.2% of this ZIP's 9,468 occupied households, on a median household income of $65K.
| Measure | ZIP 71201 | Ouachita Parish | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $65K | $55K | +$11K |
| Below Poverty Level | 21.4% | 23.2% | -1.8% |
| Median Age | 36.80 | 36.60 | +0.20 |
| Total Population | 21,782 | 158,480 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.28 | 2.50 | -0.22 |
| Owner-Occupied | 55.8% | 61.0% | -5.2% |
| Worked From Home | 8.3% | 8.3% | 0.0% |
| Mean Commute | 17.10 | 22.10 | -5.00 |
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 down 0.3% to 158,480: residents under 18 are down 0.9% and those 65 and over are up 2.2%.
County median household income is $55K, 23.2% of residents are below the poverty level, 8.3% work from home.