Pointe a la Hache, LA population, income and ZIP codes

Pointe a la Hache CDP is a very small community in Louisiana, with 344 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #389 of 489 ranked by population — larger than 20% of them. The median age here is 54.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Pointe a la Hache CDP earn a median of not published a year. 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 91.3% 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 Pointe a la Hache CDP is valued at $37,700, 87.6% below the national figure and 78% below the $173,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 100% 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.

A median age of 54.4 puts Pointe a la Hache CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 344 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Pointe a la Hache CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for Pointe a la Hache CDP 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.