What is the population of Jena town?

Jena town has 4,139 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #122 of 489 in Louisiana.

What is the median household income in Jena town?

Median household income in Jena town is $85,955 a year, 9.4% above the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Jena town?

Median gross rent is $922 a month and the median home value is $157,900, so rent absorbs about 12.9% of median household income.

Is Jena town affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 1.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Jena town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 12.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Jena, LA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Jena, Louisiana (Jena, LA — Census place “Jena town”) is 4,139 residents, ranking #122 of 489 places in Louisiana. Median household income is $85,955, the median home is worth $157,900 and median gross rent runs $922 a month. Looking for the Jena Louisiana ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Jena, LA: 71342.

Population: 4,139Jena town residents
Median household income: $85,955Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $157,900Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $922Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 39.7 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 89%Owner-occupied households

Jena ZIP codes (Louisiana)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Jena.

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

71342

What the numbers mean in Jena town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Jena town median would spend about 12.9% 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 1.8× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 6.5% of residents and 89% of households own their home.

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

Jena town, LA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Jena town is a small town in Louisiana, with 4,139 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #122 of 489 ranked by population — larger than 75% of them. The median age here is 39.7 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 Jena town earn a median of $85,955 a year, 9.4% above the national figure of $78,538 and 60% 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 6.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Jena town is valued at $157,900, 48% below the national figure and 9% below the $173,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $922 a month, 34.4% below the national figure, or roughly $11,064 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 12.9% 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 1.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 89% 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Jena town?: Jena town has 4,139 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #122 of 489 in Louisiana.
What is the median household income in Jena town?: Median household income in Jena town is $85,955 a year, 9.4% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Jena town?: Median gross rent is $922 a month and the median home value is $157,900, so rent absorbs about 12.9% of median household income.
Is Jena town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Jena town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 12.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Jena town 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.