Avondale, LA population, income and ZIP codes

Avondale CDP is a mid-size town in Louisiana, with 5,200 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #104 of 489 ranked by population — larger than 78% of them. The median age here is 35.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Avondale CDP earn a median of $47,561 a year, 39.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 12% below the $53,775 median for the 268 Louisiana cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 32% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Avondale CDP is valued at $143,900, 52.6% below the national figure and 17% below the $173,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,411 a month, essentially level with the national figure, or roughly $16,932 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 35.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 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. 85.5% 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. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Avondale CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 35.6% of median income while homes cost only 3× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.