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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 +27.7% YoY. inventory, −7.1% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 27.7% YoY while the median home got up 14.6% bigger, so value per square foot is up 12.7%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 71302 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 43.4% of this ZIP's 5,307 occupied households, on a median household income of $35K.
| Measure | ZIP 71302 | Rapides Parish | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $35K | $55K | -$20K |
| Below Poverty Level | 32.4% | 19.9% | +12.5% |
| Median Age | 36.70 | 37.90 | -1.20 |
| Total Population | 13,579 | 127,527 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.53 | 2.53 | 0.00 |
| Owner-Occupied | 56.6% | 64.8% | -8.3% |
| Worked From Home | 3.1% | 5.5% | -2.4% |
| Mean Commute | 22.20 | 22.20 | 0.00 |
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 0.7% to 127,527: residents under 18 are down 1.1% and those 65 and over are up 1.2%.
County median household income is $55K, 19.9% of residents are below the poverty level, 5.5% work from home.