What is the population of Ama CDP?

Ama CDP has 1,473 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #227 of 489 in Louisiana.

What is the median household income in Ama CDP?

Median household income in Ama CDP is $70,652 a year, 10% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Ama CDP?

Median gross rent is $1,151 a month and the median home value is $213,300, so rent absorbs about 19.5% of median household income.

Is Ama CDP affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Ama CDP is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Ama, LA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Ama, Louisiana (Ama, LA — Census place “Ama CDP”) is 1,473 residents, ranking #227 of 489 places in Louisiana. Median household income is $70,652, the median home is worth $213,300 and median gross rent runs $1,151 a month. Looking for the Ama Louisiana ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Ama, LA: 70031.

Population: 1,473Ama CDP residents
Median household income: $70,652Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $213,300Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,151Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 45 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 86.9%Owner-occupied households

Ama ZIP codes (Louisiana)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Ama.

The Ama LA ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

70031

What the numbers mean in Ama CDP

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Ama CDP median would spend about 19.5% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 3.0× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 13.4% of residents and 86.9% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Ama CDP, LA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Ama CDP is a small town in Louisiana, with 1,473 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #227 of 489 ranked by population — larger than 53% of them. The median age here is 45 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Ama CDP earn a median of $70,652 a year, 10% below the national figure of $78,538 and 31% above the $53,775 median for the 268 Louisiana cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 13.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Ama CDP is valued at $213,300, 29.7% below the national figure and 23% above the $173,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,151 a month, 18.1% below the national figure, or roughly $13,812 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 86.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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What is the population of Ama CDP?: Ama CDP has 1,473 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #227 of 489 in Louisiana.
What is the median household income in Ama CDP?: Median household income in Ama CDP is $70,652 a year, 10% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Ama CDP?: Median gross rent is $1,151 a month and the median home value is $213,300, so rent absorbs about 19.5% of median household income.
Is Ama CDP affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Ama CDP is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Ama CDP data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.