What is the population of Urania town?

Urania town has 1,186 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #257 of 489 in Louisiana.

What is the median household income in Urania town?

Median household income in Urania town is $67,500 a year, 14.1% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $1,042 a month and the median home value is $104,000, so rent absorbs about 18.5% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 1.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Urania town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Urania, LA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Urania, Louisiana (Urania, LA — Census place “Urania town”) is 1,186 residents, ranking #257 of 489 places in Louisiana. Median household income is $67,500, the median home is worth $104,000 and median gross rent runs $1,042 a month. Looking for the Urania Louisiana ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Urania, LA: 71480.

Population: 1,186Urania town residents
Median household income: $67,500Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $104,000Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,042Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 39.1 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 87.2%Owner-occupied households

Urania ZIP codes (Louisiana)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Urania.

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

71480

What the numbers mean in Urania town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Urania town median would spend about 18.5% 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 1.5× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 11.6% of residents and 87.2% of households own their home.

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

Urania town, LA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Urania town is a small town in Louisiana, with 1,186 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #257 of 489 ranked by population — larger than 47% of them. The median age here is 39.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Urania town earn a median of $67,500 a year, 14.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 26% 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 11.6% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Urania town is valued at $104,000, 65.7% below the national figure and 40% below the $173,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,042 a month, 25.9% below the national figure, or roughly $12,504 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.5% 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 1.5×, 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. 87.2% 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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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Urania town?: Urania town has 1,186 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #257 of 489 in Louisiana.
What is the median household income in Urania town?: Median household income in Urania town is $67,500 a year, 14.1% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Urania town?: Median gross rent is $1,042 a month and the median home value is $104,000, so rent absorbs about 18.5% of median household income.
Is Urania town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Urania town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Urania 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.