Cankton, LA population, income and ZIP codes

Cankton village is a very small community in Louisiana, with 610 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #340 of 489 ranked by population — larger than 30% of them. The median age here is 24.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Cankton village earn a median of not published a year. 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 29.3% 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 Cankton village is valued at $83,500, 72.5% below the national figure and 52% below the $173,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $676 a month, 51.9% below the national figure, or roughly $8,112 across a full year. 89.4% 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.

A median age of 24.8 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 610 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Cankton village against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Cankton village because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.