Baton Rouge, LA

Baton Rouge, LA is covered by 19 USPS ZIP codes serving a combined population of 378,909 according to Census ACS 5-Year Estimates. U.S. cities rarely map cleanly to a single ZIP - Baton Rouge splits its residents across 19 delivery areas, each with its own demographic and housing profile. The table below lists every ZIP by population, so you can see which neighborhoods carry the weight of the city total and which are smaller pockets of the same municipal boundary.

Aggregated across every ZIP in Baton Rouge, the median household income averages $61,662 and per-capita income averages $36,423. Poverty rate runs at 21.4% and unemployment at 7.5%. On housing, the average median home value is $233,188 with median rent of $1,217 per month, and 53.3% of occupied units are owner-occupied. These are arithmetic averages across the 19 ZIPs - not population-weighted, so small ZIPs influence the headline numbers the same as large ones.

Use this city view to compare ZIPs inside Baton Rouge against each other rather than hunting for a single "city average." The Affordability Dashboard linked below combines these Census inputs with HUD Fair Market Rents, FBI crime data, and Department of Labor childcare costs into a graded scorecard for Baton Rouge as a whole, while individual ZIP pages show fine-grained household income, housing profile, education attainment, commute time, and nearby-ZIP benchmarks. Every field on this page is sourced directly from U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates, no estimates, no proprietary scoring, no editorial adjustment.